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Several Acconiplishments

Legends and Pastorals. By Graham Hough. (Duckworth, 12s. 6d.) Poems. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 12s. 6d.) You seldom come across anyone who dislikes Graves's......

Slices Of Life

Casual Change. By Alan Houghton Brodrick. (Hutchinson, 25s.) MR. ALAN BRODRICK has for some years been among our major autobiographical writers. But he has been an exile, and......

Unreturned Native

DOUGLAS BROWN, whose first-rate study of Hardy has been revised and republished after seven years, is quite clear what he thinks important— the four central Wessex novels, Tess......