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The Great Pretender

Barrie : The Story of a Genius. By J. A. Hammel-ton. (Sampson Low. 1Gs.) IN an article in the Evening Standard, 11127, Mr. Arnold Bennett wrote " Impartial biographies of the......

A Romantic Movement

THE history of Art is a history of revolts against the estab- lished order : of these periodical risings the successful and the salutary are those whose leaders truly believe......

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Walton. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. (The Nonesuch Press. 3 guineas.) IT is time that a being, by Providence specially adapted with twelve bibliophilic senses, should......