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Shorter Notices

IN his magazine New Verse, Mr. Grigson often used to insist that for poets "the world of objects is our constant discipline," or, as he says in the present introduction, the......

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New Chum. By John Masebeld. (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) THE first term at school is always something of an adventure, and the experiences of a cadet, a "new chum," joining H.M.S.......

Fiction

The Stranger. By Maria Kuncewiczows. Translated by B. W. A. Massey. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) The North Wind of Love : Book One. By Compton Mackenzie. (Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6d.)......