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A Literary Excursion

The Wanton Nymph : A Study of Pride. By Robert Payne. (Heine- mann. 2 I S.) ACCORDING to Mr. Robert Payne's introduction, the idea of the present work originated in some quite......

A Muiician's Story

Overture and Beginners. By Eugene Goossens. (Methuen. t8s.) THIS is the first volume of an autobiography, and carries the story of the Goossens musical dynasty from its......

The Secret Man

Occupation t Writer. By Robert Graves. (Cassell. r is. 6d.) MR. GRAVES is 'a secret man, as full of surprises as a comfortable room with secret panels, an artificial buttonhole......