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Mild And Bitter

The Mint. By T. E. Lawrence (352087 A/c Ross). (Cape, 17s. 6d.) A STRANGE and impressive catalogue might be made of things needed and things renounced by Lawrence in 1922. He......

Jean Cocteau. By Margaret Crosland. (nevi11, 15s.)

journalism side of Coctcau's life is here: the opium, the great passions, the trompe-fail snooks of perpetual .adolescence at a bourgeois world. None of this is treated in a......

Picture Books

The Herder Art Series. (Interbook, each volume 15s. or 6s. 6d.) THESE two series of picture-books stand near the extremes of oolour reproduction. The Gallery of Masterpieces,......