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Southern Writers

THE Southern Literary Renaissance, although wrongly named—since Dixie had never before been troubled with literature, except for the effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin—was a......

Books

The Poetry of Swift BY M ARIUS BEWLEY OMING again to Swift's poetry,* one feels that 'light verse' provides, after all, an inadequate description for what Swift has given us.......

Country Of The Mind

Meet North Africa. By John Gunther, with Sam and Beryl Epstein. (Hamish Hamilton, 15s.) We are asked by the publishers to believe that each of these books has a special interest......