The Apostle Of Bloomsbury Books
PATRICK ANDERSON In his recent autobiography Mr Leonard Woolf paid a tribute to Giles Lytton Stratchey. 'Everything about him—his mind, body, voice, thought, wit and humour—was......
One To Dip Into
DAVID WILLIAMS Savonarola thought you shouldn't bathe in leap years. I am one who finds odd factual nuggets of this sort nice to know about, and so for a long time now I've been......
Vernon Watkins
Vernon Watkins, who died on 8 October while visiting professor of English literature at the Uni- versity of Washington, Seattle, was one of the most distinguished poets of our......
Eastern Seas
C. B. COX The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad Jerry Allen (Methuen 63s) Joseph Conrad's short story, 'The Secret Sharer,' begins: 'On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes......
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