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Horace A La Mode

Portrait of Horace. By Alfred Noyes. (Sheed and Ward. 16s.) MR. NOYES is steeped in Horace : he writes with an enthusiasm and a mellow affection which will make many former......

Exploration In Greenland

Three Got Through. By Martin Lindsay. (The Falcon Press. 8s. 6d.) IT is always interesting to discover in a book of this sort what in- spired the explorer, not himself a......

Patronage And Taste

Men of Taste. By Martin S. Briggs. (Batsford. 15s.) IN Men of Taste Mr. Briggs has compressed the biographies of twenty-six men and but one woman covering a span of years that......