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New Novels

Women's rites HENRY TUBE Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Wind us 30s) Catherine Carter Pamela Hansford Johnson (Macmillan 42s) The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir......

Through The Troubled Twilight . . . Books

RODNEY ACKLAND On my thirteenth birthday, in 1922, I was taken to the Scala Theatre and saw my first Griffith film. It was a coup de foudre from which I have never recovered:......