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Consorts And Catches

11 . 1 could have been an interesting idea to yoke together biographies of Mary Ann Lincoln and Mary Anne Disraeli. They had in common, of course, far more than names and......

Shots In The Dark

The House of Intellect. By Jacques Barzun. (Seeker and Warburg, 32s. 6d.) ONE of the most irritating things about the dis- cussions of mass culture which we read in our organs......