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A Book Of The Moment William Cobbett [copyright In Tile

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY TIM New York Times.] To summarize the spirit in which Cobbett faced the world and its troubles, and his own personal troubles and losses, one could......

A Book Of Even Greater Importance Is Mr. Aylmer Maude's

Tolstoy an Art (Oxford University Press). Mr. Maude has collected in this volume everything that Tolstoy wrote on any of the arts ; the main pieces, of course, are the essays,......

The Week, Indeed, Is A Very Notable One In The

publication of literary history and criticism. There is also Mr. Osbert Burdett's The Beardsley Period (Bodley Head), a beautifully urbane and level-headed account of the......

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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS TCHEKHOV was one of the best letter-writers in the world ; he wrote with so vivid an eye and so amiable, appreciative, gentle a spirit, It is true that he......