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Rilke

Rilke : Man and Poet. By Nora Wydenbruck. (John Lehmann. 18s.) THERE are moments in reading Rilke, especially the later Rilke, when one feels that one is not listening to a......

Opportunity Fails To Knock

Into the Wind. By Lord Reith. (Hodder and Stoughton. 255.) LORD REITH created the B.B.C., and most mortals would consider this a suitable monument, judged simply by standards of......

Eighteenth-century Crisis

George III, Lord North, and the People. 1779-1780. By H. Butterfield. (Bell. 30s.) Tins book is a by-product of a life of Charles James Fox on which Professor Butterfield has......