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Spanish Postscripts

English Captain. By Tom Wintringham. (Faber. us. 6d.) From Spanish Trenches. Edited by Marcel Acier. (Cresset Press. 3s. 6d.) Boni these books are behind the times. The first......

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" WHY," asks the author of this admirable book, " is it so hard to write a dull life of, say, Byron, and so easy to write a dull one of Burns? "—and this notwithstanding Burns's......