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Books For Christmas

Mr. Maugham's Essays The Vagrant Mood. Six Essays by W. Somerset Maugham. (Heine- mann. 12s. 6d.) Tins book of various essays is held together by the strength and interest of......

The Butterfly Again

The Man Whistler. By Hesketh Pearson. (Methuen. 18s.) MR. HESKETH PEARSON is an accomplished biographer who can be trusted to make the coat fit the man, instead of the man some......