Books: Last Leaf

RODEO—R. B. Cunninghame Graham —Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

Among first-rate British writers of the immediate past, the reputation of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham has dimmed more rapidly than that of any of his long-lived literary generation. Vaguely known to many as a friend of Conrad and W. H. Hudson, to a few admirers as the best writer in English on South America, his death last March evoked little more than the perfunctory tributes, compounded of respect and surprise, that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for...

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