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'a Sun, The Shadow Of A Magnitude'

Pushkin : Selected Verse. With an introduction and prose translations by John Fennell. (Penguin, 7s. 6d.) NEARLY everything of importance that Dos- toievsky and Tolstoy ever......

Decline And Fall

The Last Years of British India. By Michael Edwardes. (Cassell, 25s.) Peking versus Delhi. By George N. Patterson. (Faber, 35s.) MR. EDWARDES says that in describing the last......

Intervention!

Cowan's War : The Story of British Operations in the Baltic 1918-1920. By Geoffrey Ben- nett. (Collins, 30s.) SELDOM have so many problems been concen- trated in one area as was......