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A New England Moralist

The Works of Thoreau. Selected and Edited by Henry Seidel Canby. (Allen and Unwin. 18s.) THOREAU is the shirtless happy man of the fable. His happiness was part of a belief in "......

Yankee Doodle

One Times One. By E. E. Cummings, with an introduction by Lloyd Frankenberg. (Horizon Books. 8s. 6d.) MR. CUMMINGS'S seventeenth book is now generously published by Horizon, who......

After The Great War

Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939. First Series. vol. 1, 1919. Edited by fr E. L. _Woodward and Rohan Butler.- (Stationery Office. 30s.) Tins volume, which is......