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Selections from 'Les Amours Jaunes' of Tristan Corbiere. Translated into English verse by C. F. Maclntyre. (C.U.P., 28s.) CORBIERE is no gift to a translator. For what is......
The Art Of Thomas Girtin. By Thomas Girton And David
Loshak. (Charles Black, 50s.) IN recent years there have appeared one or two first-class monographs on British artists of the eighteenth century, which include short texts and......
For Winter Evenings When That Holiday By The Sea Is
another memory Mr. Vevers's illustrated volume is recommended to all who - love to wander along the coasts peering at seaweed, anemones, limpets and jellyfish. Next summer,......
The Bedside Guardian 3. A Selection By Ivor Brown From
the Manchester Guardian, 1953- 1954. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) IT Is a very good thing that there should be an annual opportunity to preserve from too early oblivion so many......
Sir Reginald Coupland Began Work On A Sur- Vey Of
nationalism in the British Empire; before getting into his subject he had thought it neces- sary to begin with a study of nationalism in Great Britain itself, and this book, on......
Steeplechasing (the Lonsdale Library, Volume Xxxii). By...
Broke, Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Lyon, etc. (Seeley Service, 25s.) THIS volume, the latest in the Lonsdale Library series, unleashes a series of experts upon their particular aspects......