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Here Are Forty Years In Unusual Aspect. The Author Entered

the Civil Service in 1904, working with seventy clerks in South Kensington under an elderly, silent Victorian chief-clerk. He finished his career in 1944 in the West Indies as......

Shorter Notices

Sebttish Verse (1851-1951). Selected by Douglas Young. • (Nelson. 18s.) MR. YOUNG believes that Scottish verse has improved since 1851—as it well might ; a glance at the opening......

Leisure. The Basis Of Culture. By Josef Pieper. With An

introduction by T. S. Eliot (Faber. 10s. 6d.) THESE two short essays by a contemporary German philosopher go a long way towards a lucid explanation of the present crisis in......

In 1942, One Might Have Thought That The Franks And

the van Daans were lucky un- fortunates. When Jews in Holland were being rounded up by the Gestapo, these two families were hidden by Dutch friends in a " secret annexe " behind......

Letters Of Emily Dickinson. Edited By Mabel Loomis Todd,...

an introduc- tion by Mark Van Doren. (Gollancz. 21s.) EMILY DICKINSON was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She died there, eccentric and wholly withdrawn from the world,......

The Victorian Temper. By Jerome Hamil- Ton Buckley....

Unwin. 16s.) WHAT is the purpose of literature and art, and to what extent should writers and artists be guided in their work by considerations of the good of society as a ∎∎......