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Memoir Of Jane Austen

emoir of Jane Austen. By E. Austen-Leigh. (Oxford Uni- versity Press. 7s. 6d.) ni- is the only record of Jane Austen's life by one who had known her. Apart from its intrinsic......

Shakespeare's Heroes

ENTHUSIASTS of the heroic period in English life and literature will follow the Machiavellian couple of lion and fox through the perplexing ways of Mr. Wyndham Lewis's book with......

The Russian Mocking-bird

Iv Ivan Krylov has had to wait some eighty odd years for an English translator who should do him full justice, it is certainly not due to any lack of universal appeal in his......