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Books Of The Day

Bihar the Elephant Babar and Father Christmas. By Jean de Brunhoff. (Methuen. 8s. 6d.) WHEN the creator of the Babar books, M. Jean de Brunhoff, died not long ago, the world......

An Aesthetic Visionary

Annals of Innocence and Experience. By Herbert Read. (Faber and Faber. ios. 6d.) Too many autobiographies nowadays are written by uninterest- ing people for uninteresting......