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Best Way To Do It

The Rest We Can Do: An Account of the Trial of John Bodkin Adams, By Sybille Bedford. (Collins, I5s.) ART and Law have not usually been on good terms . with one another for all......

New Obscurity

The Chequer'd Shade, By John Press. (0.U.P., 25s. THESE reflections on obscurity in poetry make an agreeable book which is nevertheless unequal to its great subject. Mr. Press,......