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The Speech Of Outcasts

The American Tramp and Underworld Slang. By Godfrey Irwin. (Eric Partridge. 10a. 6d.) MOST of us first knew slang as an agent of sophistication, With what notable insouciance,......

Fiction

Fresh Fields Pitiful Dust. By Vernon Knowles. (The Bodley Head. 6s.) THE shadow of a preceding book generally inclines to lie upon its successor, and this is especially true in......

A Hundred Years

THE appearance of these two books, their subjects separated in time by a bare hundred years, is strong evidence that in some respects that period has seen progress. Real......