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The Beginnings Of Literary Criticis

English Literary Criticism : . The Medieval Phase. By J. W. Atkins. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) Tins book is a valuable and long-needed study of the earliest pen in......

Tooth And Claw In China

Battle Hymn of China. By Agnes Smedley. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) THE publishers claim that this is "one of the really outstanding books on modern China ": that " in breadth and......

Our Merchant Marine

"CAPTAIN SHAW "—reports the publisher's blurb on the jacket of this book—" is perhaps the greatest authority on sea-warfare today." I am glad of the " perhaps " • it gives......