New Novels
ONE thing at least is clear about A Fable: it is offered at the level of a masterpiece and asks to be judged as such. Nine years in the writing, as they say in the trailers,......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL ArrutsrEnNo cattle shows is something to which certain country folk—farmers, farm labourers and those who can make or borrow time by any expedient—become strongly......
Alberto De Lacerda : 77 Poems. Translated By Alberto De
Lacerda and Arthur Waley. (George Allen and Unwin, 9s. 6d.) SENHOR DE LACERDA is one of the few poets writing today who, while still under thirty, possesses the assurance of......
Other Recent Books
Tms short memoir is a work of piety, an offering to the memory of a friend. Such a book, neither biography nor criticism, is not accessible to the comments of strangers. The......
Stuart Chase's The Tyranny Of Words, Pub- Lished Fifteen...
ago, was some sort of seminal book, although it may not have been profound. This new book cannot be expected to be profound, as it is a survey of the semantic development in all......
• Ephemeral Things
To be a trout fisherman and never turn to philosophy is almost impossible. Sooner or later the ways of trout teach an angler that he must wait upon nature and, although he may......
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