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Books

Turning caviar into bread Colin Welch THE ETHICS OF REDISTRIBUTION by Bertrand de Jouvenel Liberty Press, Indianapolis, $12, $5, pp. 99, also available at the Economists......

Modus Vivendi

Each night, as he played patience she stood behind his shoulder. 'Jack on Queen', she would cry just before he spotted it himself. How was it, then, that she murdered him rather......

He Was To Her A Heroine, She To Him A

hero Anita Brookner HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON: LETTERS, 1900-1915 edited by Lyall H. Powers Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f25, pp. 412 I n 1909, overcome by a black depress- ion,......