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Trilling's Journey By C. B. COX 'Mile road of excess leads to the palace of I wisdom.' Recently Blake's words appear to have been taken as a motto by an increasing number of......

Footy-footy

Monsieur Nicholas, or The Human Heart Laid Bare. By Restif de la Bretonne. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Robert Baldick. (Barrie and Rockliff, 42s.) RESTIF DE......

Sage And Mage Of The Steam Age

WE all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard. On the surface, be seems to have every- thing in his favour—impetuous lover who rescued Ba from the dragon (read......