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Books

Men Without Women By KINGSLEY AMIS A BRI TISH reaction to Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler's new volume* can get well under way before a Word of the text is read. Its mere physical bulk......

Tea With Queen Victoria

Lady Lytton's Court Diary, 1895-1899. Edited by Mary Lutycns. (Hart-Davis, 30s.) EDITH, widow of the first Earl of Lytton, became a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1895,......

Lineaments Of Faith

So far Manniana is merely trickling out. It will hardly achieve the flood proportions of Rilkcana. It is intellectually more austere, at times orotund, partaking of the GOM and......