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Ham And Sarsparilla

PERHAPS Patrick White's turning to the theatre is an attempt to redress an imbalance which he feels in his novels: an attempt to state his themes within a more socially......

Books Legions North

By I. A. RICHMOND „ * THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN, A.D. 43-57. "Y Donald R. Dudley and Graham Webster. (Batsford, 30s.) W HEN authors confess that _a study* is attempted with......

Joyce The Great

Hare Comes Everybody. An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, By Anthony Burgess. (Faber, 30s.) IF we are all ordinary readers—and we ought to be if we......