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Fiction

Restless House. By Emile Zola. With an introduction by Angus Wilson. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 12s. 6d.) Modern Greek Folktales. Chosen and translated by R. M. Dawkins. (Oxford......

In Next Week's "spectator" C. M. Woodhouse Will Review "tito

Speaks" by Vladimir Dedijer ; Enid Starkie "Et mine =net in te" by Andre Gide; Derek Hudson "The White Knight" by A. L. Taylor; and the Astronomer-Royal "Astronomy for......

Metaphors And Language .

PHILOLOGY may well be described as the " gay science," for it combines fact, speculation and fanciful uncertainties in pleasant proportion. The laws of Grimm and Verner may be......