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Much Ado About Nothing
'Dom°, a filthy pleasure is, and short' goes the first line of Ben Jonson's imitation of Petronios , which finds a place in William Cole's anthologY , Erotic Poety, under the......
Crystal Days
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse. Translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite. (Penguin Books, 7s. 6d.) THIS new collection of Japanese verse in......
The Hero And The Villain
By LEONARD CHESHIRE T HIS is unquestionably an illuminating book* —illuminating not so much about the man of whom it is written, but of the society in which We live. The truth......