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Greenwood's Pall Mall

The Story of the Pall. Mall Gazette. By J. W. Robertson Scott. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) How is this always interesting, often entertaining, almost incredibly discursive......

Classics Of Youth

Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. By Marghanita Laski. (Arthur Barker. 6s.) A DISTINGUISHED and fastidious - historian whom I once knew used to argue with......

In The Ill-ring

ONE morning in the month of May, 1920, I woke up in the sump- tuous guest-room of the Master of one of the Cambridge colleges. The maid (there were still maids) brought me an......