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Orphism

TI1E Orphic Mysteries, about which so little is really known and therefore so much can be guessed, 'have long been a favourite subject of speculation among students of conc......

George Iii's Insanity

Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville. Edited by F. McKno Bladon. (13odley Head. 18s.) A KEEN, one might almost say a morbid, interest in madness seems to be inherent in human......

Fiction

7s. 6(1.) IT is commonly held that bitterness and a preoccupation with the sordid and the vile are, in a writer, certain indications of a passion for " realities " and "truth."......