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Old Master

Osbert Lancaster Collected Stories Osbert Sitwell (Duckworth £6.50). It is with a certain measure of trepidation that anyone of the reviewer's generation must open this book;......

Books Wanted

THE ECONOMICS OF INFLATION. Bressiani Turroni. Geo. Allen + Unwin: THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HIS rORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE — M. Rostortzeff, ed. don Street, Frazee (2 vols. Oxford......

Beyond The Grave

Quentin Bell The Plundered Past, The Traffic in Art Treasures Karl Meyer (Hamish Hamilton £4.00) No work is more delicate or more difficult than that of the archaeologist in the......