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Furnished Rooms

Domestic Interior and other poems. By Laurence Lerner. (Hutchinson, 15s.) Intentions and Versions. By Julian Cooper. (St. George's Gallery, 5s. each.) POEMS (except in......

American Dilemmas

MR. BEWLEY'S critical studies of five American novelists are united by the thesis that all five— Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, James, Fitzgerald —represent facets of a peculiarly......