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Rough And Smooth

The Eleven Men of Eppynt. By Roland Mathias. (Dock Leaves Press, 10s. 6d.) THE first twenty-six years of Isaac Babel's life, which provided , him with the material for nearly......

A Hero Of Our Time

BOND, the unspeakable Bond, is back. Encounter- ing Smersh for the fourth, and reviewers for the fifth, time, abandoning Tiffany Case (Tine girl, but she's a bit neurotic') for......

Polysynthesis

A Study of History. By Arnold J. Toynbee. Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by D. C. Somervell. (O.U.P., 25s.) LIKE Proust's great novel, A Study of History ends with the author......