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Six Year Darling

The poets are to blame, or partly so : Wordsworth's pretty pigmy, plump with joy, And Henry Vaughan's white celestial thoughts Mislead as much as Millais' chubby boy Or......

Out Of The Snake Pit

The Year of the Angry Rabbit. By Russell Braddon. (Heinemann, 18s.) The Liquidator. By John Gardner. (Muller, 18s.) HANNAH GREEN is a pseudonym and I Never Promised You a Rose......

Solution To Crossword 1130

ACROSS.-1 Primrose Hill. 8 Reed- organ. 9 Anvil. 11 Aeneid. 12 Fine Arts. 14 Wax-candles. 16 Fool. 18 Silk. 19 Vestibules. 21 Expedite. 22 Prison. 25 Naomi. 26 Repeaters. 27......

Spectator Crossword No. 1131

1. Where Spain goes west (10) 6. Times „when a wise man is troubled (4) 10. Significant of a suspended sen- DOWN 11. The call of the raven (9) friend (5) 12. Sardines, head to......