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The Poetry Of Scotland

The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry. Edited by Hugh MacDiarmid. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) Garmina Gadelica. Vol. III. Collected by Alexander Carmichael (Oliver and Boyd. ISS.)......

France's Collapse

Why France Fell. By Andre Maurois. (John Lane. 5s.) A FEW months ago M. Andre Maurois wrote, rather hastily, a little book called The Battle of France. Competent and read- able,......

Books Of The Day

Lord Robert A Great Experiment. By Viscount Cecil. (Cape. 16s.) Tins volume is sub-titled, with distressing mendacity, an auto- biography. Would that it were that. Actually it......