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New Novels
The Wicked Pavilion. By Dawn Powell. (W. H. Allen, 12s. 6d.) Sowers of the Wind is a straightforward and rumbustious Australian effort about the military occupation of Japan......
English Archives
IT is often asked, rather querulously, why historians today seem unable to write with the superb gusty confidence of Macaulay. One reason is that there has occurred a......
A Novelist And A Critic
Mother and Son. By I. Compton-Burnett. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) WITH a reference to the later Eliot, Mr. Liddell writes two of Miss Compton-Burnett's dialogues out as verse; he......