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Ruskin To Yeats

The Last Romantics. By Graham Hough. (Duckworth. I5s.) "BY what he did, what he was, and what he failed to do," wrote Pater of Coleridge, he "represents that inexhaustible......

Opportunity Fails To Knock

Into the Wind. By Lord Reith. (Hodder and Stoughton. 255.) LORD REITH created the B.B.C., and most mortals would consider this a suitable monument, judged simply by standards of......

Shakespeare Omnibus

Shakespeare and his Critics. By F. E. Halliday. (Duckworth. 30s.) HAVING stimulated initial prejudice, this book does its own work of conversion. Mr. Halliday has set out to......