MORE POEMS -A. E. Housman -Knopf ($2).
A. E. HOUSMAN-A. S. F. Gow-Macmillan ($1.75).
THE UNEXPECTED YEARS-Laurence Housman-Bobbs-Merrill ($3).
When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his first book of poems in 1895, his older brother Alfred wrote him: "I had far far rather have my poems mistaken as yours, than your poems mistaken as mine." In his will the solitary author of A Shropshire Lad gave his brother permission "to publish any poems which appear to him to be completed and to be not inferior to the average of my published poems." Last week Laurence...
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