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Play

A History of Toys. By Antonia Fraser. (Weiden- feld and Nicolson, 4 gns.) PLAY is part of our lives from the first moment the infant fist closes round a rattle until doddery old......

The Light Is Mellow

Memories. By C. M. Bowra. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 55s.) IT was Virginia Woolf who remarked of the writers of the 'thirties that 'their autobiography is so much better than......