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Can Hardly Wait

THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. By Sir George Thomson. (C.U.P., 10s. 6d.) SCIENTIST s' books for a general public commonly fall into various faults. Sometimes they show an......

Museum Without Walls

VAN GOGH. With notes by Douglas Cooper. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC:. With introduction and notes by Hanspeter Landolt. (Holbein- With introduction and notes by Hanspeter Landolt.......

Historiography

MAN ON HIS PAST. By Herbert Butterfield. (C.U.P., 22s. 6d.) ACTIVMES emerge. naively, like games that children invent for themselves. Each appears, first, as a direction of......