17 DECEMBER 1921, page 22

Poets And Poetry.

BEHIND THE EYES.* MR. RICKWOBD'S book of poems is one that will make his reviewers write his name down in that little list that I suppose we all keep—the list of writers whose......

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JURGEN.• • WHEN this book was published in America, proceedings were taken against it by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice under what are known as the " Comstock......