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New Verse

A Spring Journey and Other Poems of 1952-1953. By James Kirkup. (0.U.P. 8s. 6d.) The Birth of Venus. By John Smith. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) Two different moments govern the......

New Novels

District Commissioner. By Kenneth Austin Dobson. (Museum Press. 10s. 6d.) The Soldier at the Door. By Edith Pargeter. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) The Welsh Sonata. By James Hanley.......

What Have We Here ?

Barney's pelagic paramour was the abalone, the only mollusc, aside from the chambered nautilus, that has inspired both verse and song. WHAT is this, Aldous in an aqualung? Cyril......