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Eastward To Persia

Tux advantage of a book about an Oriental country written by an Oriental, is that the author will probably not approach his subject from the romantic point of view, investing it......

Poetry And Music

Melody and the Lyric. By John Murray Gibbon. (Dent. l 2a. 6d.) MANY poets confess without shame that they are unmusical. For this they should be pitied, not blamed. But when......

Edward Thomas

World Without End. By Helen Thomas. (Heinemann, 6s.) EDWARD THOMAS'S friends will find this sequel to As it Was ; full of interest, and it is better written. In accordance with......

A Philosophy Of Reality

FROM the multitude of highly technical and abstract works published every season, it is a pleasure to turn to A Philosophy of Reality, in which a genuine effort is made to think......