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Despite His Cleverness

Joseph, 15s.) . MARY MCCARTHY has an anecdote about a young American girl engaged on a creative writing course who remarked, 'Mr. So-and-so is very pleased with my story, and......

Australians And Others

Poems. By A. D. Hope. (Hamish Hamilton, 15s.) William Empson Reading Selected Poems. (Listen Records, 39s. 9d.) A. D. HOPE is an important writer. Probably his best-known poem......