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Shorter Notices FIELD-MARSHAL Loan WAVELL'S anthology is very much what

would expect from an enlightened soldier. His tastes are consen ; tive, and he tells us that his son, who shares his love for poet 1 thinks them a little old-fashioned ; but this only says that ea. 2 of them belongs, quite properly, to his own generation. It impossible to describe Lord Wavell's interest in poetry as nar and there are surprises in this book—such as the inclusion