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Sweetness And Lighting

A Life in the Theatre. By Tyrone Guthrie. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style. By Michel Saint-Denis. (Heinemann, 15s.) THE flavour of theatrical memoirs......

Wicked Years

THERE are to be six volumes of Swinburne' s letters—two thousand or so in all; two volunles have now appeared, taking the story down to 1875, when Swinburne was thirty-eight.......