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A Rage To Die

Tents of Wickedness. By Peter de Vries. (Gollancz, 16s.) Front the Terrace is a maggoty slice of life : 900 Pages of Alfred Eaton's, complete or over- complete with the sexual......

Before The Mayflower

The Elizabethans and America. By A. L. Rowse. (Macmillan, 25s.) IT was appropriate that Dr. Rowse should be asked to give the first Trevelyan Lectures. He has long proclaimed......