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Thomas The Novelist

ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE. By Dylan Thomas. (Putnam, 9s. 6d.) FOR its eloquence alone this fragment of Dylan Thomas's pro- jected autobiographical novel was worth publishing.......

The Eastern Schism

ME EASTERN SCHISM. By Steven Runciman. (O.U.P., 21s.) This book is based on the Waynflete Lectures which Mr. Runciman delivered at Oxford in the spring of 1955. It is a brief......