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A Modern " Mystery "

Tea With Mrs. Gooch:neat By Philip Toynbee. (Horizon Books. 75. 6d.) LIKE Virginia Wo‘lf's The Waves and Auden's The Orators, to which it has affiliations, Mr. Toynbee's new......

Fiction

AFTER the inept nonsense of the past few months it is a pleasure to settle down with Miss Hester Chaptnan's new novel. Admirers of Long Division may be surprised to find that......

Milton With His Background

"Paradise Lost" and the Seventeenth Century Reader. By B. Rajan. (Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6d.) Tim rehabilitation of Milton after a recent vogue of depreciation is significant.......