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Russian Genius

A Hero of Our Own Times. By Mikhail Lermontov. (0.U.P. : World's Classics, 7s.) The Captain's Daughter is one of the stories in which Pushkin created Russian prose. Like that of......

Books

'Alive!' BY GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH W E live, Albert Camus recently said, in a world in which our grand inquisitors may set up, once and for all, the kingdoms of death. Other......

Royal Borough

Kensington. By William Gaunt. (Batsford, 25s.) `No other quarter of London is so consciously, hard-boiledly, shamelessly middle-class.' So wrote H. J. Massingham of Kensington......