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Owls The Murderous Owls Off Malo Bay Can Lure A

sleepless watchman to the sea, For their deep singing may be heard Throughout a night of thunder and their red Eyes take him dancing silently Down to the choking sea-bed. Far......

Concealed Intentions

Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918- 1945. Vol. X, June 23-August 1, 1940. (H.M.S.O., 32s. 6d.) THIS volume consists of official German docu- ments of two sorts : foreign......

Island Intellectual

THIS book consists of seven essays in a modern and peculiarly English genre : what Mr. Wain calls in passing 'conversationally-styled criticism.' Yes, Sainte-Beuve had his......

Self-portraits

UNLIKE most painters Mr. Trevelyan is lost when he writes. There is in his book none of the pre° . sion and originality in writing which often go es with the manual skill of his......