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Prose

English Prose - Style. By Herbert Read. (Bell. 9s.) PROSE is already old when its writing becomes a self-conscious art. At first, words follow from the nature of the man and the......

The Empire In Evolution Empire Government. By Manfred...

(Ceorgo Allen and Unwin. 10s.) TIIE old platitude tells us that we acquired the Empire " in a fit of absence of mind." However that may be, there seems some real danger that it......

Fiction

Past and Present Butterworth. 7s. 6d.) Beau Ideal. By P. C. Wren. (John Murray. 7s. 6d.) IN The Lost Fight the author of The Unhurrying Chase returns to the Middle Ages, though......