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It Old Fitz "

FROM The Essential Samuel Butler to a new book about FitzGerald! One has the agreeable sensation of escaping from the world of the Hydrogen Bomb into the convivial atmosphere of......

A Mediaeval Traveller's Tale

Sir John Mandeville: The Man and His Book. By Malcolm Letts. (The Batchworth Press. is.) LIVE narrative material is not abundant in the literature of the Middle Ages. For the......

The Private Life Of Baudelaire

Intimate Journals. By Charles Baudelaire. Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Introduction by W. H. Auden. (Methuen. 25s.) IT is strange that a man who, in an age of progress,......