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Incas And Saints

ADMIRERS of Violet Clifton's The Book of Talbot will not be dis- appointed in her new work. Vision of Peru is exciting, pi - ovocative and beautifully written, and is almost as......

Theocritus In Translation

A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus. By R. C. Trevelyan. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) MR. R. C. TREVELYAN'S translation of Theocritus, which originally appeared......

Celibacy In Crime

WITH their two books Miss Marsh and Mr. Blake go straight to the top of the criminal class. Perhaps Thou Shell of Death had a better plot, but in every other particular Minute......