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Tip-and-run In Turkestan

The Traoscaspian Episode 1918-1919. By C. H. Ellis. (Hutchinson, 30s.) IN the summer of 1918 General Malleson, with a handful of troops and a small staff (on which the author of......

A Question Of Proportion

Re-Appraisals : Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature. By Martin Green. (Hugh Evelyn, 30s.) 'A SCHEME of literary values which promotes Faulkner above Emerson, which......

Hardly Anything Bears Watching

Hardly anything bears watching. Bricks and stone Have lost their intense surprise.' For years I kept my trust in things. Even beyond the last parishes Fringed with refuse, Hills......