Romantic Tough's Tongue
Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo. Edited by Hyman E. Goldin, Frank O'Leary, Morris Lipsius. (Constable, 36s.) I ONCE listened to an interminable argument between two......
Black-fly And Rose
Poems of Many Years. By Edmund Blunden. (Collins, 18s.) Collected Poems. By John Pudney. (Putnam, 18s.) THE English countryside and the English seasons are the substance of......
Party On Olympus
Gods and Heroes of the Greeks. By H. J. Rose. (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) STUDYING Professor Rose's exact and scholarly collation of Greek mythology is like being present at an......
Particles Of Light
LEFT to themselves Keats's devotees would blight the reading of his verse with doctrines and superlatives. The trouble with so many of them, as critics, is that they shut......
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