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Americana

American Themes. By D. W. Brogan. (Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.) LEAVING aside Professor Harold Laski, who has many other fish to fry, we may consider that Professor Brogan......

The Advantages Of Scholarship

Studies in Seicento Art and Theory. By Denis Mahon. (University of London. £2 10s.) THE practice of reissuing in this country art books printed and prepared abroad is a......

Maugham Into Sherriff

Quartet consists of four of Mr. Somerset Maugham's short stories, The Facts of Life, The Alien Corn, The Kite and The Colonel's Lady, plus their adaptation into screen plays by......