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Bond Honoured Arts

HILARY SPURLING One of the sterner virtues of the Royal Court is the zeal with which, regardless of sloth, in- gratitude or simple peevishness, it pursues the Abbey Theatre's......

Shorter Notices

The Faber Book of Nursery Songs selected by Donald Mitchell, arranged by Carey Blyton, illustrated by Alan Howard (Faber 36s). Ninety nursery songs handsomely laid out,, with......

A Hundred Years On

CHARLES REID The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz translated and edited by David Cairns (Gollancz 75s) Richard Strauss: a Critical Commentary on his Life and Works, Vol II, Norman del......