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A New Major Poet ?

The Sinai Sort. By Norman MacCaig. (The Hogarth Press, 12s. 6d.) EVEN if 'bliss' is perhaps an exaggeration of what it was in that dawn to be alive, anyone who grew up in the......

At Mrs. Taylor's

Angel. By Elizabeth Taylor. (Peter Davies, 15s.) THOSE readers who have enjoyed and admired the work of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor ever since At Mrs. Li ppincote's was published in......

Securing The Seas

'WHAT matters this or that reason?' asked a self- made Duke in 1662. 'What we want is more of the trade the Dutch now have.' He spoke for many. Historians and economists of this......