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New Novels

Tellers all MAURICE CAPITANCHIK An Absence Uwe Johnson translated by Richard and Clara Winston (Cape Editions 6s) Elegy for a Revolutionary C. J. Driver (Faber 30s) Dry Mass......

Sorry Story

JO GRIMOND, MP Tides of Fortune 1945: 1955 Harold Mac- millan (Macmillan 70s) An autobiography must be judged as a work of art—as a work of original expres- sion. But ex-Prime......