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Short Stories

The Horse that Could Whistle Dixie. By Jerome Weidman (Heinemann. 8s.) " THESE stories are commercial," says Mr. Weidman, of The Horse that Could Whistle Dixie; they were......

Shorter Notices

Tilts book has too ambitious a title, and it is disfigured by some of Mr. Wells's prejudices and by the peevishness that weakens his controversial writings. Indeed, reading Mr.......

Hudibrasticks

New Year Letter. By W. H. Auden. (Faber. tos. 6d.) WHEN a poet has the will to write poetry and poetry does not come, he has two alternatives before him: he can relapse into......