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The Clumsy Blue Bird

Selected Poems. Idris Davies. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) Famous Meeting. Robert Gittings. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) A Mask for Janus. W. S. Merwin. (Yale. $2.50.) A MORE serious problem than......

Angela Burdett - Coutts. By Clara Burdett Patterson....

unusual material in this book ; for money is power, and power to the extent of £80,000 a year comes to few. Angela Burdett- Coutts was born in 1814, and died in 1906. She was......

No Truce

Love's Apprentice: A Handbook for Combatants in the War of the Sexes. By Tom Hopkinson. (Jonathan Cape. 15s.) THE sex-war may be a crude, unscientific, uncompromising tern'' ,......