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The Right Review has produced isolated issues within the last year, and in addition to the Polish side, it published poetry by various people, including D. S. Savage (there was even a book of Savage's poems published by the Right Review, Don Quixote, which Mr. Savage does not mention in his new volume, though he reprints several poems from it). To deal with Mr. B.'s statements at the start of Chapter VII is quite outside my powers; he skips over America in less than a page, omitting more reviews than he lists he pots the results of the outbreak of the war so thoroughly that I would rather undertake to reconstruct a pig from a tin of Spam than to try to sort out this muddle. When I started this review I intended to wind up with a list of Mr. Baker's omissions, but now I see that to do so, giving even the shortest account of each, would require more than a whole issue of Wales. Looking at the pamphlet again I wish I could pass on to Mr. Baker the advice of my drawing master at school: Rub it out and do it again," but here it is, appearing over the imprint of a reputable publisher, spoiling the market for any possible decent book on the subject. No, Mr. Baker, this won't do-it is quite obvious that you have read none of the papers which you profess to mow-your accounts of them are too inaccurate and, as for criticism, why you never dream of it, save in the attempt to boost your own minimum Opus to a prominence which it does not possess. I have just glanced at Mr. Baker's new production, Little Reviews Anthology, Allen & Unwin, 8/6d. All that I have said about laziness on Mr. B.'s part applies to this also, with the additional criticism that a fair view of the Little Reviews published since the outbreak of the war would show a little less of Mr. B. and his pals. Ruthven TODD.