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Brave Poetry

Still Life: William Soutar 1898-1941 By Alexan- der Scott. (Chambers, 25s.) IN the Scottish literature of the last fifty years, which has its own strain of illness and courage,......

Sense Of Order

The Arts, Artists and Thinkers, A Symposium edited by John M. Todd. (Longmans, 35s.) THE contributors to this symposium—mostly Catholic laymen meeting at the Benedictine abbey......

Earlier Cozzens

LONGMANS have now reprinted nearly all of Mr. Cozzens's mature work before By Love Possessed. The first three, A Cure of Flesh (12s. 6d.), Men and Brethren (12s. 6d.) and Ask Me......

Someone Gets Angry

Television and the Child. By Hilde T. Himmel- weit, A. N. Oppenheim and Pamela Vince. (O.U.P., for the Nuffield Foundation, 42s.) WELL, things, I'm afraid, aren't nearly as bad......