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Twentieth-century Camoens

The Lusiads. By Luis Vaz de Camoens. ' Translated by William C. Atkinson. (Penguin Books. 2s. 6d.) WHEN one passes, in conyersation, from French, Spanish or Italian literature......

A Key To Proust

MR. SPALDING had produced an ambitious book with an engaging and, I am sure, genuine air of modesty. For he has compiled a " synopsis " of one of the longest and least easily......

The Mist Around Chekhov

WITH the possible exception of Shaw, no playwright in the last hundred years has had a worse influence on the theatre than Chekhov. We may never hear the end of his followers :......