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A Nearly Forgotten Art

Mediaeval English Poetry: The Non-Chaucerian Tradition. By John Speirs. (Faber, 42s.) IN this lon g book Mr. Speirs follows up his Chaucer the Maker with a series of studies of......

Educated Silliness

Miss SIMONE WEIL'S attraction to Christianity and the Greek classics takes on a perilous aspect because she is approachin g the subject, not with the humility of a scholar but......