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The Little Liar

ERICH KXSTNER was, I think, the only author who was present to see his own books being burned in Berlin's Franzjosefsplatz on the night of May 10, 1933. Freud was still safe in......

Academic Discourses

The Necessary Angel. By Wallace Stevens. (Faber, 21s.) uark Conceit: The Making of Allegory. By Edwin , 13 , 1 G poets can ask a lot of their readers; or rather, t neY offer a......

Gentlemen And Settlers

J ameson's Raid. By Elizabeth Pakenham, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) I liE story of the Jameson raid has all the in- g r edients of tragi-comedy, and Lady Pakenham t ells it......