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Fin De Steele : A Selection Of Late Nineteenth-century...

and Art. Chosen by Nevile Wallis. With a Note on the Period by Holbrook Jackson. (Allan Wingate. 10s. 6d.) Tilts elegantly produced volume with its yellow jacket with a black-......

Shorter Notices

France : A Short History.. By Albert Guerard. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) IN spite of certain defects this is an excellent short introduction to French history. Professor......

Short Stories Mr. G. F. Green's Short Stories Are Tight,

spare and unpretentious. His Land Without Heroes lies somewhere north of Mr. Leslie Halward's Birmingham and the Nottingham of D. H. Lawrence. It is a dark, rainy and -dangerous......

Early Christian Ireland

The Irish Tradition. By Robin Flower. (Oxford University Press. Cumberlege. 8s. 6d4 Our of the medley of religion, superstition and bardic legend which seems to have gone to......

Russian Literature From Pushkin To The Present Day. By...

Hare. (Methuen. 4s. 6d.) MAURICE BARING claimed that hardly any literature equals the Russian in reproducing the spirited struggles of men, thus making Russian literature the......