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Spooks!

New Light on Old Ghosts. By Trevor H. Hall. (Duckworth, 25s.) MR. HALL has in the last ten years been author or part-author of several books in the same genre: The Haunting of......

Along The Ginza

Portrait of Japan. By Hakon Mielche. Translated Reischauer. (Harvard/O.U.P., 52s.) A Short History of Japan. By Malcolm Ken- nedy. (Mentor Books, 6s.) THE first three of these......

Poets Of Celebration I

Medieval Welsh Lyrics. Translated with an intro- duction by Joseph P. Clancy. (Macmillan, 30s.) . TRANSLATIONS of over one hundred poems by twenty-five poets of the fourteenth,......