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Couple Or Congeries? -

The Cowden Clarkes. By Richard Altick. - (Oxford University Press. 18s.) COWDEN CLARICE is known to lovers of Keats as the schoolmaster who initiated him into the mystery of......

How We Are Governed

Parliament. By Sir Courtenay Ilbert and Sir Cecil Carr. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) The Government of Britain. ByWilfrid Harrison. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) THE second of these......

Fiction

IT would be too much to say that a novelist is limited by the human worth of his characters, but their stature is important. A genius who wrote always about moral pygmies would......