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America The Tarnished

A New American History. By W. E. V'oodward. (Faber and Faber. I2s. 6d.) ONE of the very best books written on the America of the Coolidge boom was Mr. Ramsay Muir's America the......

Eighteenth Century Poetry

Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry. By David Nichol Smith. (Humphrey Milford. 6s.) On The Poetry of Pope. By Geoffrey Tillotson. (Clarendon Press. 7S. 6d.) I WONDER......