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Stories

Here and There. Selected Short Stories. By W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) The Servant. By Robin Maugham. (Falcon Press. 6s.) Mn. SOMERSET MAUGHAM never fails to......

The Poem And The Age

Five Poems 1470-1870. By E. M Tillyard. (Chatto & Windus. 8s. 6d.) DR. TILLYARD'S latest book sets out to explain and criticise five representative poems, ranging from The......

George Meredith

Meredith. By Siegfried Sassoon. (Constable. 15s.) WHATEVER the ups and downs of fashion, Meredith's distinctive con- tribution to the canon of English prose and poetry will......