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Arts Gentlemen And Players

ROBERT CUSHMAN The Two Gentleman of Verona (to say nothing of the dog) was the play chosen to inaugurate Peter Hall's regime at Stratford in 1960. It was by general consent a......

Best Things Best

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH George Meredith and English Comedy V. S. Pritchett (Chatto and Windus 21s) Meredith had a hard time establishing a repu- tation—even at the height of his......

Shorter Notices

The People's Rights Winston Churchill with an introduction by Cameron Hazlehurst (Cape 30s). First published in 1909, Churchill designed this book (a personal edition of some of......