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That Heavy Load

Acquaintance with Grief. By Vincent Brome. • (Cassell, I5s.) SPLENDID though it is, there is something rather oppressive about the Great (American) Tradi- tion; so many good......

The Freedom Of Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann. Edited by W. S. Lewis, W. H. Smith and G. L. Lam. (O.U.P., f18 18s.) AT one time I should have rejected the idea of sitting......