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Swinburne's Unfinished Novel

HERE at last is the 'novel, incomplete and also fragmentary in other respects, which has been the subject of so much noisy secrecy. It was unfinished by its author, but his......

Portrait Of A County

Durham. By Sir Timothy Eden. (Robert Hale. The County Books Series. 2 vols. 18s. each.) THIS is the very best book of its kind—a kind in which it is not easy to excel : a......

An Unconvincing Apology

Memoirs. By Franz von Papen. (Andre Deutsch. 25s.) HERR VON PAPEN possesses at least one political gift which, in twentieth-century politics, is to be rated high : the capacity......