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Footnotes To Yeats

The Lonely Tower. By T. R. Henn. (Methuen. 2 is.) As Yeats's poetry can be understood completely—if at all—only with some knowledge of his life and times, the topical and......

Response To Architecture

Smooth and Rough. By Adrian Stokes. Illustrated. (Faber. ► cs.) ONE of the pleasures of reading Mr. Stokes's writings on art has always been in the discovery of a poet's......

Confucius Re-interpreted

Confucius: The Man and the Myth. By H. G. Creel. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. ass.) PROFESSOR CREEL aims to pierce the mist of later tradition with which the conventional view of......