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The Domestic Background

Joseph Conrad and his Circle. By Jessie Conrad. (Jarrolds. 185.) THE domestic background is of interest : to know how a writer with the peculiar sensitivity 'we call genius......

White Trash

White, Brown and Black. By Marcelle Prat. .(Methuen. 7s. Eld.) VERY occasionally it is worth while noticing a bad book at Some length, if only to give hitherto reputable......

Th E Hydra's Task

Church and State in 'Tudor Times : A History of Penal Laws against Irish Catholics, - 1534-1603. By Robert Dudley Edwards. {Longman. 18s. ) • LAST week's religious riots in......