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A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE Lord Ponsonby PRIVATE AND PERSONAL Cecil Lewis A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR G. M. Young CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE J. E. Barton LITERARY SPEED REGULATIONS Renee Haynes THE ENGLISH SCHOOL THEATRE M. Alderton Pink

POEMS Laurence Binyon, C.H. Monica Burnett Clifford Dyment E. V. Fleming G. M. Hort James Walker

DRAMATIC NOTES, REVIEWS, CORRESPONDENCE BULLETIN

PUBLISHED FOR THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION BY HUMPHREY MILFORD, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MODERN ANTHOLOGIES

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The Modern or Neo-Georgian Age has produced a literature which is different; whether it is better or worse than the literature of any preceding period abides our question. In order, however, that the careful and discriminating reader may be able to judge for himself, THE MODERN ANTHOLOGIES have been pre pared for the use of Classes in Modern Literature.

LIST OF THE SERIES

PROSE Edited by A. J. J. RATCLIFF

BIOGRAPHY Edited by LORD DAVID CECIL

DRAMA Edited by s. R. LITTLEWOOD

MEMOIRS Edited by F. W. TICKNER

NATURE WRITING Edited by HENRY WILLIAMSON

TRAVEL Edited by H. M. TOMLINSON

ANIMAL WRITING Edited by FRANCES PUT

IN PREPARATION

SHORT STORIES Edited by J. w. MARRIOTT

HISTORICAL ROMANCE Edited by F. j. TICKNER

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President THE VERY REV. W. R. INGE, D.D., K.G.V.O.

AIMS AND ACTIVITIES 1. To unite and introduce to one another those who are interested in English Language and Literature whether as writers, teachers, artists, actors, or administrators, and to act as a link between groups engaged in specialized English work.

2. To uphold the standards of English writing and speech, to contribute to English letters, scholarship, and research, to discuss methods of English teaching, and to encourage especially the work of younger members.

3. To put these aims into practice by providing lectures, readings, discussions, social functions, and a magazine, and to organize occasional visits to dramatic performances and places of literary interest. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, 1937 Vice-Presidents THE RT. HON. STANLEY BALDWIN, D.C.L,, LL.D. (President 1927)

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