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Exeter. By Bryan Little. (batsford. 15s.)

BATSFORD'S have a corps of geniuses to design their book covers for them, and the picture of Exeter Cathedral which adorns this book is even more than usually attrac- tive. In......

The Shakespearian Tempest. By G. Wilson Knight. (methuen....

THE reprint of this, the fourth of Wilson Knight's Shakespearian volumes, is most welcome. It is prefaced by an introductory note, which deals with certain points of scholarship......

Shorter Notices

ONLY France, surely, could have produced such a figure as Vidocq. Tough, wily, vain, irresponsible, romantic—the epithets could pile up indefinitely and still do less than......

" His Style Is Very Clumsy," Wrote Dean Inge, In

the foreword to an earlier selection from Plotinus, published in America. " His book, which reads like notes of discursive debates at a seminar, is very ill arranged." In the......