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A Girl Was Singing

A girl was singing in the choir with fervour of all who have known exile and distress, of all the vessels that have left the harbour, of all who have forgotten happiness. Her......

Small Town

The Wizard of Loneliness. By John Nichols. (Heinemann, 30s.) The Singing Lizard. By John Knowler. (Cape, 21s.) The Pedestal. By George Lanning. (Michael Joseph, 25s.) Love with......

The Great Shakespeare Hoax

CA 5 By MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH T HE notion that Shakespeare did not write the works unequivocally ascribed to him by his close friends, colleagues and contemporaries c' in no......

The Myth Of America

The Letters of Hart Crane 1916-1932. Edited by Brom Weber. (C.U.P., 40s.) 'I MAY go to New York, I may remain here, I may explode, Lord knows.' Thus Hart Crane at the age of......