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Fiction

The Rose and the Yew Tree. By Mary Westmacott. (Heinemann. 8s. 60.) . _ ENoitmouS fainily• sagas stand about the literary landscape today as thickly as brontosauri and other......

A Boy's Life

Memory of Michael. By Philip Wayne. (Nicholson and Watson. 6s.) IN this short and moving book one father speaks for many fathers bereft of many sons. Michael Wayne (thousands of......

Peacock Today

The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Edited and introduced by David Garnett. (Rupert Hart-Davies. 18s.) PEACOCIC," says Mr. Garnett in his biographical introduction to this new......