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The Dream Interpreted

Nineteenth-Century Fiction. By A. N. Kaul. IN Democratic Vistas, pessimistic as to Ameri- can facts, optimistic as to American possibilities, Walt Whitman posed one of the......

Doom-laden Lives

Confusions. By Jack Ludwig. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) JOHN MACDOUGALL HAY'S Gillespie is a horri- fying but magnificent book which was well worth reviving. Even the First World......