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The Confused Knight

The Life of Sir John Eliot, 1592-1632. By Harold Hulme. (Allen and Unwin, 35s.) IN 1865 John Forster published what has long been the standard biography of Sir John Eliot.......

Come All You

English and Scottish Ballads. Selected by Robert Graves. (Heinemann, 9s. 6d.) The Common Muse. Edited by V. de Sola Pinto and A. E. Rodway. (Chatto and Windus, 25s.) POEMS are......

The Freedom Of Genius

Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic. By Alan Wood. (Allen and Unwin, 2 IS.) THERE are obvious objections to writing a man's biography while he is still alive. Certain......