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Proust And Marcel

Pleasures and Regrets. By Marcel Proust. Trawl' led by Lout • Varese. (Dobson. 9s. 6d.) "IT is true tliat he observed himself too much ; in the background of his life he was......

The Earl Of St. Vincent

Old Oak : The Life of John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent, By Admiral Sir William James. (Longmans. Iss.) HIS1ORY, particularly that of war, is so often made up of lost......

The Poet Of "the City"

THototsoN is the only major Victorian poet whose works have tempted no publisher to reprint them. The two-volume collection of 1895 finally sold out about twenty years ago, and......