25 NOVEMBER 1949, page 22

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Adventures With Words Name into Word. By Eric Partridge, (Seeker and Warburg. 25s.) Mn. PARTRIDGE, in his philological work, always combines true scholarship with a pungent......

Rilke

Rilke : Man and Poet. By Nora Wydenbruck. (John Lehmann. 18s.) THERE are moments in reading Rilke, especially the later Rilke, when one feels that one is not listening to a......