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Self-appraisal

PATRICK ANDERSON fo Leave Before Dawn Julien Green (Pete' ,)ss en 38s) his Timeless Moment Laura Archera (Chatto 42s) he City That Shone Vivian de Solo Pinto Hutchinson 50s)......

Island Story

THOMAS BRAUN A History of Sicily: Ancient Sicily to the Arab Conquest M. L Finley (Chatto and Windus 36s) The Greek colonists who settled in Sicily and South Italy in the eighth......

String Them Up

CHRISTOPIIER BOOKER Killing No Murder: A Study of Assassina- tion as a Political Means Edward Hyams (Nelson 42s) 1 doubt whether, in her recommendation of a more liberal......