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Eminent Victorians Children's Books

CLEMENT FREUD The history of children's books is loosely bound up with the history of children. When the ideal child was seen and not heard it was naturally not written for.......

All Things Bright

PATRICK ANDERSON The Letters of Rupert Brooke edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Faber 105s) The best of our war poets was curiously unim- pressed by the events of August 1914.......