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" Poor Dick "

The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Edited by Rae Blanchard. (Oxford University Press. 355.1 ONE of the most elegant and insidious literary devices of the eighteenth century......

An American In Berlin

Into the Darkness. By Lothrop Stoddard. (Chapman and Hall, izs. 6d.) THIS careful study made by Dr. Stoddard of Germany during the first five months of the war—only—is intended......

The Prime Minister

Mr. Churchill. By Philip Guedalla. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) MR. GUEDALLA as a writer has many moods, ranging from the coruscations of his Palmerston to the relative......