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The Larkin Tone

The North Ship. By Philip Larkin. (Faber, 15s.) I SUPPOSE that, as a general rule, few first volumes of verse stand up in their own right, self-assertive, valuable, memorable.......

Drang Nach Osten

The Third Reich and the Arab East. By Lukas Hirszowicz. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 60s.) SOME of the worst moments for Britain in the Second World War came in the early spring......