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Congreve And Farquhar : A Contrast

The Works of Congreve. Edited by F. W. Bateson. (Peter Davies. 7 6d. ) The Complete Works of Farquhar. Edited by Charles Stonehill. (Nonesuch Press. 45s.) MANI - people,......

These English !

Rough Islanders. By H. W. Nevinson. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) AT the opening of this skilful and ingenious book on the English, Mr. Nevinson quotes a French acquaintance who hated......

Christina Rossetti

A POET whose outward existence was that of a High Church spinster of mid-Victorian outlook, living most of her life with FM ageing mother in a gloomy London house, " dressing......