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Meticulous Captain

Mad, Is He?: The Character and Achievement of James Wolfe. By Duncan Grinnell- Milne. (Bodley Head, 30s.) THIS is one of those books that are calculated to alarm a reviewer......

Inflation In Art

The Struggle of the Modern. By Stephen Spender. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) 'THE modern movement, in literature at any rate, looks today like past history.' Or a dead duck. Except......