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Requiescat In Limbo

Sing ip Barren. By Edward Dahlberg. With a Foreword by Herbert Read. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) " How droll and sorrowful it is to hear again the names of those Venus-Poetasters whom......

Canterbury Arms

IN the last decade of the fourteenth century, rebuilding of the nave of Canterbury Cathedral led to reconstruction of the cloister, which adjoins it to the north. This was......

The Functions Of Background

MR. 0:3G is primarily a historian, and history and biography are not identical. Mr. Ogg begins by stating that Dr. Fisher was born in 1865. He then adds that "in the annals of......

The Harnessing Of Literature .

THE author of this book lived in Russia during his childhood, at the time of the 1917 Revolution. He was Deputy Press Attache at the British Embassy to Russia during the war. He......