Bleak Memoir
A Cornishman at Oxford. By A. L. Rowse. (Cape, 30s.) MR. ROWSE has had recourse to his youthful diaries to describe most interestingly what it was like to be a working-class boy......
Great Expectations
How Many Miles to Babylon? By Ann Boro- wick. (Muller, 20s.) Professor Descending. By Ramona Stewart: (Heinemann, 21s.) Novetts - rs have been in the last few years in-......
The Avengers
IN The Destruction of Dresden, Mr. Dovid Irving has already given us one of the best and most illuminating books that have come out of the last war. One is tempted to say that......
Lost Atlantis
THE Horatian tradition in English literature is a lost Atlantis of the mind. Unthinkable, now, that the speeches of our statesmen should be scat- tered with Latin tags taken......
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