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The Heroic Theatre

He that Plays the King. By Kenneth Tynan. (Longmans. 128. 6d.) THIS book is by a very young man, who begins it by saying that it does not contain "mature reflections and......

Mr. Gow's Theocritus Theocritus. Edited With A...

by A. S. E. Cow. (CambMge University Press. 2 vols. 63$.) MR. ANDREW GoW's Theocritus, child of many prayers - 6f seven- teen years' creation—marks a happy return to the great......