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Books Of The Day

A Poet's Growth A Study of Goethe. By Barker Fairley. (Clarendon Press. 15s.) " TALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by......

Mrs. Wharton

Portrait of Edith Wharton. By Percy Lubbock. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) PORTRAIT of Edith Wharton.... Very old, very slow memories began to stir in my mind, like sluggish crustaceans......