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Fiction

PROLTST.-4. PRUDENCE and good nature have been keeping me quiet: about Proust. A year ago some twenty or thirty or forty English novelists and critics rose to adore him. Mr.......

Notable Books

THE large number of reprints of Borrow which this century has seen point to a great revival of interest in his works, especially when compared with the unpopularity into which......

At The Back Of Beyond

Pygmies and Bushmen of the Kalahari. An Account of the hunting tribes inhabiting the great arid plateau of the Kalahari desert, their precarious manner of living, their habits,......

Samuel Butler. By C. Joad. (parsons. 4s. 6i1.) Mn. Joan's

new book is concerned with a figure to whom his mind is especially sympathetic, for Samuel Butler, as a scientist, a sociologist and a philosophical speculator not only was a......