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Norman Douglas

MATERIALS for a biography of Douglas are scattered, for the gleaning, in his published works—in Late Harvest, in Looking Back, in notes and introductions; to say nothing of a......

New Novels

The High Jump. By Val Gielgud. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) IT often happens in the hurly-burly of reviewing, where many volumes compete for little space, that books are passed over......

Historical Verse

I SUSPECT that most readers of poetry have, from time to time, a nostalgic longing for the historical poem. We were all brought up to the vigorous incantations of verse, in......