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Trail Of Ashes

Beverley Nichols' Challenge Vita Sackville-West (Collins E2. 50) Here they come again, these star-cross i ed , lovers, Vita Sackville-West and Vic H h e e . Trefusis, returning......

Great And Small

Basil Taylor Samuel Cooper 1609-1672 Daphne Foskett (Faber £6.50) amuel Cooper, the miniature painter, has u een, for an artist who never ventured it seems beyond the limits of......

Human Factory

Colin Wilson Views from the Real World Early Talks of Gurdjieff as,Recollected by his Pupils (Routledge and Kegan Paul £4.25) When George Ivanovich Gurdjieff died in 1949,......