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Cash Without Honour

The Trail of Opium. By Margaret Goldsmith. (Hale. 12S. 6d.) THE Sumerian ideograms of 4000 B.C. spoke of opium as "the plant of joy." The Papyrus mentioned it as a remedial......

Poetry And Politics

WE are mod on the dust-cover that by means of a "detailed analysis of the most outstanding poets of our time," Mr. Philip Henderson "shows how each in turn, despairing of......