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Poetry In War

(Secker and Warburg. 5s.) PECULIAR things—peculiar commonplaces—are now expected from poets in a war ; or rather a war is expected to plant such commonplaces in the poet and......

The Diggers

Left-Wing Democracy in the English Civil War. By D. W. Petegorsky. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) IT is natural that a period of social disruption and civil war should be productive of......

God In This World

THESE two new volumes of the Christian Challenge Series, by the Bishop of Liverpool and by the Dean of Durham, have so far a common theme that their purpose is to correct the......