OXFORD BOOKS OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST
BITTER HERBS
By MARGA MINGO.
Translated by
ROY EDWARDS. This
sensitive and moving autobiography describes the German occupa–
tion of Holland as it appeared to a young J ewish girl. Writing
with simplicity and restraint, the author tells her story through a
series of extraordinary vignettes.
Illustrated.
$2.50
A VICTORIAN ROMANTIC:
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
By OSWALD DOUGHTY. This is a scholarly but highly entertain–
ing re-issue with corrections, additions, and some new illustrations,
of the first definitive biography of D. G. Rossetti. As a result of
the author's exploration of all published and unpublished material
the book contains much that previous biographers have ignored.
$8.00
THE BAD-TEMPERED MAN
or
THE MISANTHROPE
A Play in Five Scenes by Menander
Translated by PHILIP VELLACOTT. Foreword by CHRIS–
TOPHER FRY. The plays of Menander, which had an enormous
reputation in antiquity, were known only indirectly and in frag–
ments until the beginning of this century. Dyscolos (The Bad–
Tempered Man), only recently discovered, is the first complete
play of Menander to come to light.
$3.00
THE OXFORD BOOK OF CANADIAN VERSE
Edited by A.
J.
M. SMITH. This is the best of Canadian poetry–
from the solid verses of the "pioneer poets" to the sophisticated
styles of the modern cosmopolites-in the first anthology to repre–
sent both English and French Canada.
$7.50
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