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F. 0. Matthiessen: 1902-50

Victor Anant Irvington-on-Hudson, New York H arvard University, Cambridge (Mass) has at last honourably vindicated Pro- fessor Felix Otto Matthiessen, its most in- fluential......

Wykehamical

Alan Bell By Safe Hand: Letters of David and Sybil Eccles 1939-42 (Bodley Head £16) S econd World War reminiscences are by no means all concerned with battlefields and Bletchley......