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Sir Richard Burton

The Arabian Knight. By Beton Dearden. (Arthur Barker. 12s. 6d.) . BOTH these books set out to rescue the figure of Burton from oblivion. So surprisingly little has been written......

A Conventional Elizabethan

Timm is little enough in Sir Henry Lee's life to excite, or perhaps even to interest. A good-looking young man, much addicted to physical exercise, an excellent tilter, minor......

The Scottish Writer'

Scott and Scotland. By Edu in Muir. (Routledge. 5s.) How account, without too deeply wounding Scottish self- esteem, for the unsatisfactoriness of Scottish literature as a......