JULY 1954 VOLUME I No 6 The London Magazine A monthly review of literature VERNON WATKINS Poet and Goldsmith V.S. PRITCHETT Portrait of a Clerk GEORGE BARKER Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House HUGO CHARTERIS The White Dancer SHEILA WINGFIELD Lines for the Margin of an Old Gospel C. H. B. KITCHIN A Cottage in Cornwall CHARLES CAUSLEY The Prisoners of Love PAUL BOWLES Letter from Tangier DOROTHEA KROOK The Later Works of Henry James Correspondence from Bernard Bergonzi and Elsworth McQuaid BOOK REVIEWS BY Rex Warner, Francis Wyndham, Robert Gibson, J. Maclaren-Ross Michael Swan and lan Scott-Kilvert EDITED BY JOHN LEHMANN TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE

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