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On Editing A Manuscript

Auberon Waugh Silence James Kennaway (Cape £1.25) The Night I Caught the Santa Fe Chief Edward Thorpe (Michael Joseph £2.10) A Terminus Place Lee Story (Michael Joseph E2.15)......

Life Of A General-at-sea

Northcote Parkinson Robert Blake, General-at-Sea J. R. Powell (Collins £5) British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century: Tactics in Battle John Creswell (Allen and Unwin £4.80)......