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A New " Republic "

The Republic of Plato. Translated with Introduction and Notes by F. M. Cornford. (Clarendon Press. 7s. 6d.) WHAT is the greatest secular prose book in European literature? It......

King Richard Ii

Richard II. By Anthony Steel. (Cambridge University Press. v5s.) Mum learning has been lavished in recent years upon the reign, and especially upon the fall, of King Richard II.......

A Chinese Storyteller

UNTIL the appearance of this book there have been only two or three anthologies of contemporary Chinese writing in English. For a literature that has been practically ignored......