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Now Very Fragrant

Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. By Paul Gauguin. (Bruno Cassirer, 63s.) Paul Gauguin: Watercolours, Pastels and Draw- ings in Colour. Edited by Jean Leymarie. (Faber, 45s.)......

Landscape Into Art

Revolutionary Road. By Richard Yates. (Deutsch, 18s.) Strike the Father Dead. By John Wain. (Mac- millan, 18s.) WHY is it that American novelists seem to write so very much......