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Self-persecuted

Easter and Other Plays. By August Strindberg. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) WHEN Mr. Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, he offered the whole sum as an endowment for......

A Brave Attempt

The Greek Anthology. By Shane Leslie. (Bonn. 12s. 6d.) 'tt:IE critic who does not know that his first duty is one of sym- pathetic understanding is not a critic at all. He must......