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Two Brontës

The Brontes—Charlotte and Emily. By Laura L. Hinkley. (Ham- mond. 15s.) As the Brontë centenaries crowd upon us—Branwell died on Sep- tember azith, 1848, Emily on December 19th......

Art And Forgery

THE word " fake " can mean many different things. At one end of the scale it covers Van Meegeren's forgeries of Vermeer and Floren- tine reliefs by Bastianini ' and at the other......

A Poet Of Modern Greece

The King of Asine and Other Poems. By George Seferis. (Lehmann 7s. 6d.) TRANSLATING poetry is doubly difficult when the original language (considered in isolation from the......