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The Cornhill Magazine. Summer, z9so. (John Murray. 2s. 6d.) As the Cornhill is now our leading literary magazine, anyone interested in good writing is concerned that it should do well on its all too rare appearances. This is an excellent issue, filled with the products of genuine scholarship attractively presented. The Editor, Mr. Peter Quennell, shaking off his obsession with the Baroque and the Byronic, appeals to a wide range of interests. Miss Margaret Lane is an agreeable writer who has already employed her bio- graphical skill on such contrasted subjects as Edgar Wallace and Beatrix Potter ; here she throws a revealing light on the Rev. A. B. Nicholls, Charlotte Bronte's husband. Mr. Somerset Maugham, in a long illustrated article, provides a balanced and sympathetic study of the Spanish painter Zurbaran, overshadowed by his great con- temporary Velasquez but deserving more attention for his own sake. Inez Holden re-introduces a character of the nineties, Ada Leverson, whose entertaining novels are shortly to be reprinted. The number includes articles by Antoine Bibesco on Proust and by H. R. Trevor-Roper on Admiral Canaris (whom he rather surprisingly terms " the Hamlet of conservative Germany ").
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