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Creative Reading

The Art of the Novel from 1700 to the Present Time. By THE novelist, as distinct from other artists, works for an un- instructed public ; the composer knows that his music will......

Virtue Is A Bargain

The Exemplary Mr. Day. A Philosopher in Search of the Life of Virtue and of a Paragon among Women. By Sir S. H. Scott. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE mourning backslider, the......

Logos

A Short History of English Words. By Bernard Groom. (Macmillan. 5s.) THE successful publishing of" word-books," and the perennial demand for dictionaries, suggest that the......