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Contemporary English Artists

Matthew Smith. (Penguin Modern Painters. 2s. 6d.) I AM not convinced that Matthew Smith is a good draughtsman, despite Sickert's opinion to the contrary, quoted by Philip Hendy......

Our Navy And Its Background

The Naval Heritage. By David Mathew. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) Bisitop MATHEW has brought to this book the scholarship, the pictorial imagination, the unexpected phrasing, the......

The Examined Life

THIS is a long book which many will find unreadable. Yet those who persist will be forced to admit respect. Chafed as they may be by the silver sentences so thickly encrusted......