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High Corn

Goddess of the Bullring. By 1.01a Verrill Cintron- (Muller, 21s.) Poor Me. By Adam Faith. (Four Square. 2s. Ii is (or ought to be) an accepted maxim for readers of......

The Rhetorical Swindle

A PERIOD after defeat or suppression, or both, seems to favour good novels. to judge by transla- tions since the war from Japan and Italy—novels in earnest, not just reflecting......