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An Assault To Our Senses

England, Ugliness and Noise. By Ainslie Darby and C. C. Hamilton. (P. S. King. is. 6d.) "BUT how they must have smell 1" we superior moderns are apt to say when patronizingly......

Roger Casement

The Life and Death of Roger Casement. By Denis Gwynn. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6(1.) IF Casement had died shortly before the War his memory would be preserved with reverent......

Poetic Pitfalls

Seven Types of Ambiguity. By William Empson. (Chatto and Windus. 78. 6d.) Jr has long been recognized that among the reasons why poetry is superior to prose is that in poetry......