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The Church In A Fog

Anglican Attitudes: A Study of Victorian Re- ligious Controversies. By A. 0. J. Cockshut„ (Collins, 16s.) TIIE Oxford or Tractarian Movement of 1833-45, which culminated in......

Nabokov's Basement

Nabokov's Dozen. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Heine- mann, 15s.) MR. EDMUND WILSON, the living critic I most admire, has said, the blurb of this book tells us, that Nabokov is 'a......

Pyrrhic Failure

DURING the last years of his life Sir Ronald Storrs amused himself by collecting verse translations of Horace's Ode to Pyrrha (Book 1. Ode V). By the time he died he had amassed......