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The Irish Question By ROBERT RHODES JAMES ' N a memorable passage in the biography of his father, Sir Winston Churchill compared con- sideration of the first Home Rule Bill with......

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The Stories of Mary Lavin. (Constable, 30s.) Stories : Volume 2. By Morley Callaghan (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 18s.) FROM her six books of short stories Mary Lavin has made a......

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MODERN poets, on the whole, make poor sub- jects for the biographer. If—in the words of Yeats- - they chose 'perfection of the work,' their lives are likely to have been as......