4 MARCH 1949, page 22

An American Bestiary

IT seems to be generally understood that Mr. Thurber's books are funny. It is, I imagine, also generally understood that Shakespeare's tragedies are tragic. There is little need......

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Yeats-Brown Francis Yeats-Brown (1886-1944). By John Evelyn Wrench. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 15s.) THOUGH he was continually trying to persuade the world of some- thing,......