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Femme Fatal

Nina Hamnett was once in Ireland, she decided to pay a visit to the enchantingly lovely Blasket Islands, but when she arrived at Dingle, which is on the mainland opposite the......

Who Wrote Hoffman?

TI1E MAN WHO WAS SHAKESPEARE. By Calvin Hoffman. (Max Parrish, 15s.) I HAD a narrow escape once. I might easily have become a Shakespearean scholar. The talk in my home when I......

Baldwin—legend And History

1 - r will be a pity if this book is regarded as no more than a moving human document. Moving, certainly, it is. The unstrained quality of Mr. A. W. Baldwin's love of his father......