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Framing A Self-portrait

The Life of Llewellyn Powys. By Malcolm Elwin. (John Lane. 15s.) IN a postscript which happily disposes of 'the acknowledgments usually crammed into a prefatory note, the author......

A Pledge For Posterity

Tins volume of poems appears posthumously, and therefore the appropriate task of the critic is not to analyse it, but rather to survey the whole field of the man's work, of......

The Young Johnson

MR. A. L. READE represents, in a singularly splendid and indus- trious manner, the more academic side of the Johnson cult. In the patient accumulation of detail, in the......