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Baby Love

5/1 „ ary Whitehouse b -ri nging Up Children in a Difficult Time uenjarnin Spook (Bodley Head £1.95) n i3r P e ek is, on the whole, a wise man. Even if fld does over-simplify......

Puppy Love

Beverley Nichols H. O. Wells and Rebecca West Gordon M. Ray (Macmillan £2.95) This is a sombre and distressing book. And though it appears with the imprimatin of Dame Rebecca,......

A Great Hack

George Gale Samuel Johnson John Wain (Macmillan £4.9 5 ) This commodious and discursive work of pietY starts with the prdposition, startling to me, that "Samuel Johnson has not......