31 DECEMBER 1954, page 18

Hock And Soda-water

By KINGSLEY AMIS B YRON is the fifteenth poet (not counting Shakespeare, of course) to receive the honour of an individual Penguin volume.* He comes after a bunch of standard......

The Embrace Of Islam

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