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Misery In New York

Episodes Before Thirty. By Algernon Blackwood. (Peter Nevill. i SS.) ADMIRERS of Mr. Algernon Blackwood's tales of the uncanny and the unaccountable may find this record of his......

The Youth Of A Poet

THE English attitude to Goethe does not change. In spite of two centenaries it is still the man we are interested in rather than the poet. No publisher would venture a standard......

A Seventeenth-century Squire

The Knyvett Letters (162e-1644). Transcribed and Edited by Bertram Schofield. (Constable. 2 I 9.) Tms charming book, for the production of which the Norfolk Record Society is......