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i f • • No th ing f not Cr itical BY JOHN WAIN I T is no wonder that Dr. I. A. Richards* has always dazzled everyone; he gives off, such a radiance that one has to approach him.......

Confessions Of A Justified Egoist

FIRST FOUR MINUTES. By Roger Bannister. (Putnam, 15s.) DR. BANNISTER has never been one to take the easy conventional way out, neither in his training, in his racing—nor in his......

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THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND. By A. L. Rowse' (Macmillan, 30s.) THE first volume of Mr. Rowse's Elizabethan trilogy dealt with th r e . structure of English society and......