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An Oxford Novel

In the Spring the War Ended. By Steven Linakis. (Cassell, 25s.) OXFORD and Alexandria have always been grave- yards of the reputations of minor novelists. I can think of only......

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,......