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Tu Quoque

HENRY TUBE A Fairly Honourable Defeat Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Windus 35s) In her first published book, a study of Sartre, iris Murdoch wrote: The novel, the novel proper that......

Under A Cloud

STUART HOOD The Unperfect Society Milovan Djilas (Methuen 35s) On the night of 7-8 December 1953, Milovan Djilas, then a member of the Central Com- mittee of the Yugoslav......

Books Romantic Landscape With Express

REGINALD HERRING No more with a railway than with a battle can the commander hope to do it again and get it right. A railway throughout its life bears the stamp of its first......