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Robert Burns

There Was a Lad. By Hilton Brown. (Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.) " I AM writing mainly," Mr. Hilton Brown tells us, "for those whose knowledge of Burns is slight ; the initiate......

Berdyaev's Last Testament

The Divine and the Human. By Nicolas Berdyaev. (Bles. 18s.) THOUGH there may be Other works of Berdyaev still to be translated, it seems unlikely that we shall ever have a more......

Experiments With Truth

IF at any time in the last twenty years you had asked a score of well-informed Englishmen for their estimate of Gandhi's place in history, I suspect the majority would have been......