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Traitors

The Meaning of Treason. By Rebecca West. (Macmillan. 18s.) ONE of the few questionable things about this superlative and terrible book is its title. As a gallery of......

A Poet On His Calling

The Common Asphodel. By Robert Graves. (Hamish Hamilton. 15s.) Ir is surely a comment on the taste of our time that Mr. Robert Graves, a poet of real originality with a flavour......

A. A. Command

ACK-ACK: Britain's Defence against Air Attack during the Second World War. By General Sir Frederick Pile. (Harrap. I8s.) IN the course of the last two years a considerable......