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Books Of The Week

The Creation of British India The East India Company in Ei g hteenth-Century Politics, By Lucy S. Sutherland. (Cl a rendon Press, Oxford. 35s.) To ride ahead, to shoot strai g......

Re—assessment Of A Master

RARELY has the true stature of an artist been so successfully dis g uised by popular acclamation as in the case of Fra An g elico. He was hardly dead when the title " an g......

From Greenwich Village

The Shores of Li g ht: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties. By Edmund Wilson. (W. H. Allen. 25s.) THE bulk of this book is made up of short criticisms, rept inted-......

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