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Fin De Siècle

Ernest Dowson. By Mark Longaker. (Humphrey Milford. 24s.) IN his Introduction to Dowson's Poetical Works, Mr Desmond Flower makes out an ingenuous case for the eighteen-nineties......

Fiction

The Commodore. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 9$. 6d.) IN the days of my childhood, before the last war, days when man's inhumanity to man was not taken complet l ely for......