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The London Magazine [v1 #3, April 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 13 · Plains · W. H. Auden · pm; illustrated by Eleanor Poore 16 · The Pioneer · P. H. Newby · ss 25 · Two Poems · Roy Fuller · gp; illustrated by Bernard Brett _25 · Ambiguities · Roy Fuller · pm _26 · Poem Out of Character · Roy Fuller · pm 28 · The Gourd · C. H. B. Kitchin · ss 44 · The Bungalows · William Plomer · pm 46 · If I Should Open My Mouth · Paul Bowles · ss 55 · Endurance · G. J. Warnock · pm 56 · Letter from Paris · Robert Gibson · ar 62 · A Sentimental Education · J. C. Hall · pm; illustrated by Anthony Gross 64 · George Orwell: Politics and Good Prose · Laurence Brander · ar [George Orwell] 72 · Correspondence 72 · [letter] · Richard Wollheim · lt 73 · [letter] · R. G. Bentall · lt 74 · Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas · Louis MacNeice · br 74 · The Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas · Louis MacNeice · br 77 · The Stronghold, by Xan Fielding · Rex Warner · br 77 · The Golden Honeycomb, by Vincent Cronin · Rex Warner · br 81 · John Keats: The Living Year, by Robert Gittings · Barbara Cooper · br 84 · The Creative Element, by Stephen Spender · Tom Hopkinson · br 88 · Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis · Michael Swan · br 88 · Hurry on Down, by John Wain · Michael Swan · br 88 · The Flaw in the Crystal, by Godfrey Smith · Michael Swan · br 94 · The Overreacher, by Harry Levin · James Michie · br 94 · The Shakespearean Moment, by Patrick Cruttwell · James Michie · br 102 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #4, May 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 13 · A Young Girl’s Song · Edith Sitwell · pm; illustrated by Colin Hayes 15 · Question and Answer · William Sansom · ss 25 · Two Poems · Thom Gunn · gp _25 · Palinode · Thom Gunn · pm _26 · Hungry · Thom Gunn · pm 27 · Love with a Drum · Eugene Walter · ss 36 · The Double Door · Peter Yates · pm 37 · Four Stories and a Foreword · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · gp; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone _37 · Foreword · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · fw _38 · On Board the ‘Valdivia’ · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · ss _40 · Hommage to Baedeker · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · ss _43 · Memories of Childhood · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · ss _46 · Crusoe · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · vi 47 · Three Poems · Christopher Lee · gp; illustrated by Eleanor Poore _47 · Narni: The Bright Cloud · Christopher Lee · pm _48 · The Temple of Clitumnus · Christopher Lee · pm _48 · The Villa Garden · Christopher Lee · pm 50 · Edward Thomas and Robert Frost · Eleanor Farjeon · ar [Edward Thomas; Robert Frost] 62 · A Visit to William Blake · Maurice Carpenter · pm [William Blake] 63 · Simone de Beauvoir · Maurice Cranston · ar [Simone de Beauvoir] 70 · Authors of Today: André Breton · Katerina Wilczynski · il 71 · Letter from Oxford · Geoffrey Hill · ar 76 · Correspondence 76 · [letter] · John Cruickshank · lt 78 · The Castle, by Franz Kafka · Idris Parry · br 81 · A Layman’s Love of Letters, by G.M. Trevelyan · C. V. Wedgwood · br 83 · The Voices of Silence, by André Malraux · J. M. Cocking · br 88 · In Love, by Alfred Hayes · Francis Wyndham · br 88 · The Death of Kings, by Charles Wertenbaker · Francis Wyndham · br 88 · The Laughing Matter, by William Saroyan · Francis Wyndham · br 94 · Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, by T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound · Roy Fuller · br 102 · Friends Apart, by Philip Toynbee · Tom Hopkinson · br 106 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #5, June 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 15 · Milton · Edwin Muir · pm 16 · Apthorpe Placatus · Evelyn Waugh · ex; from Book One of the unfinished sequel to Men At Arms; illustrated by Eleanor Poore 35 · Convalescence · Frances Bellerby · pm; illustrated by John Minton 37 · The Cat · Pierre Gascar; translated by Jean Stewart · ss 48 · Two Poems · Howard Nemerov · gp _48 · Midsummer’s Day · Howard Nemerov · pm _49 · The Winter Lightning · Howard Nemerov · pm 51 · Miching Mallecho · Laura Bohannan · ss 61 · The Fox · Adrian Mitchell · pm; illustrated by Anthony Gross 63 · The Future of the Writer · J. B. Priestley · ar 68 · Riddle for a Christmas Cracker · John Wain · pm 69 · Reflections 69 · A Letter from New Delhi · Dr. S. Copal · ar 70 · Frank Confession · Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; translated by Flora Grierson · ms 74 · The Stratford Company in Paris: A French View · Adrienne Monnier · ms 76 · The Waste Scotland · Hubert Nicholson · pm 77 · The Confidential Clerk, by T.S. Eliot · Rex Warner · br 80 · The Bandit on the Billiard Table, by Alan Ross · Rose Macaulay · br 80 · Temples of the Sun and Moon, by Michael Swan · Rose Macaulay · br 84 · The Alleys of Marrakesh, by Peter Mayne · Paul Bowles · br 88 · The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins · Margaret Lane · br 93 · The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse, by Geoffrey Moore · Stephen Spender · br 97 · The Egotistical Sublime, by John Jones · Norman Nicholson · br 104 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #6, July 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 13 · Poet and Goldsmith · Vernon Watkins · pm; illustrated by Eleanor Poore 15 · Portrait of a Clerk · V. S. Pritchett · ss; originally broadcast in a different version in ‘New Soundings’ 20 · Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House in Wiltshire · George Barker · pm 22 · The White Dancer · Hugo Charteris · ss 28 · Lines for the Margin of an Old Gospel · Sheila Wingfield · pm 30 · A Cottage in Cornwall · C. H. B. Kitchin · ss 47 · The Prisoners of Love · Charles Causley · pm 48 · Letter from Tangier · Paul Bowles · ar 54 · Authors of Today: Paul Claudel · Katerina Wilczynski · il 55 · The Method of the Later Works of Henry James · Dorothea Krook · ar 71 · Correspondence 71 · [letter] · Bernard Bergonzi · lt 72 · [letter] · Elsworth McQuaid · lt 74 · [letter] · Frank MacShane · lt 75 · Jonathan Swift, by John Middleton Murry · Rex Warner · br 78 · Bitter Honeymoon and Other Stories, by Alberto Moravia · Francis Wyndham · br 81 · The Art of Paul Valéry, by Francis Scarfe · Robert Gibson · br 84 · Rebels and Ancestors, by Maxwell Geismar · J. Maclaren-Ross · br 84 · The Literature of the United States, by Marcus Cunliffe · J. Maclaren-Ross · br 92 · My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Amos Tutuola · Michael Swan · br 92 · In the Castle of My Skin, by George Lamming · Michael Swan · br 92 · Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin · Michael Swan · br 98 · Fair Greece, Sad Relic, by Terence Spencer · Ian Scott-Kilvert · br 98 · Aegean Greece, by Robert Liddell · Ian Scott-Kilvert · br 104 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #7, August 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 13 · John Clare (1793-1864) · Patrick Garland · pm; illustrated by Judith Lewis 15 · Sevillana · Laurie Lee · nf 23 · Psyche · C. Day Lewis · pm 26 · The General and the Spy · Graham Greene · nf; extract from an Indo-China Journal 30 · Two Poems · E. J. Scovell · gp; illustrated by Stephen Gardiner _30 · Sorrows of Childhood · E. J. Scovell · pm _30 · Walking Into Yew Woods · E. J. Scovell · pm 32 · Another Kind of Passion · Philip Oakes · ss; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone 45 · Trethosa Chapel · Jack Clemo · pm 46 · The Fashionable Tiger · Jean Ferry; translated by Jean Stewart · ss 49 · Mid-Sussex · Alan Ross · pm 51 · Proust as I Knew Him · Marie Nordlinger-Riefstahl · ar; originally a lecture delivered at King’s College, London on 11-Mar-54 62 · Reflections 62 · Artists of Wales · Dylan Thomas · ms; originally formed part of a programme broadcast in 1949 on the Welsh Home Service 63 · George Orwell as Magician · Christopher Hollis · ar 66 · Letter from Cambridge · Thom Gunn · ar 69 · The Ragged Bridegroom’s Aside to the Dandies · Norman Buller · pm 70 · Correspondence 70 · [letter] · J. C. Maxwell · lt 70 · [letter] · John Cruickshank · lt 71 · [letter] · Pansy Pakenham · lt 74 · George Herbert, by Margaret Bottrall · Louis MacNeice · br 74 · George Herbert, by Joseph H. Summers · Louis MacNeice · br 77 · Turgenev: A Life, by David Magarshack · L. P. Hartley · br 77 · Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert, by Francis Steegmuller · L. P. Hartley · br 80 · The End of an Old Song, by J.D. Scott · Francis Wyndham · br 80 · The Dark Glasses, by Francis King · Francis Wyndham · br 82 · The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow · Tom Hopkinson · br 86 · The Death Bell, by Vernon Watkins · George Barker · br 86 · The Pot Geraniums, by Norman Nicholson · George Barker · br 93 · Soldiers Bathing, and Other Poems, by F.T. Prince · William Plomer · br 96 · Jerusalem Journey, by H.F.M. Prescott · Lettice Cooper · br 96 · The Man on a Donkey, by H.F.M. Prescott · Lettice Cooper · br 100 · The Lover’s Dilemma, by Paul Bodin · David Hughes · br 100 · The Doctors, by André Soubiran · David Hughes · br 100 · Fever in Mexico, by Pierre Fisson · David Hughes · br 106 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #8, September 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 9 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 11 · The Forest · Margiad Evans · pm 12 · Authors of Today: Walter de la Mare · Katerina Wilczynski · il 13 · The Stranger · Walter de la Mare · pl 20 · Letters in Darkness · Lawrence Durrell · pm 23 · Miss Wimpole [Part 1 of 2] · Jocelyn Brooke · ar 33 · The Moth · Clifford Dyment · pm 35 · Poor Fish · Alberto Moravia; translated by Angus Davidson · ss; illustrated by Keith Vaughan 42 · Oedipus · Anthony Thwaite · pm 43 · Letter from Paris · Pierre Schneider · ar 52 · The Lesser Pipistrelle · Paul Roche · pm; illustrated by Philippe Jullian 54 · Joseph Conrad · Lord David Cecil · ar [Joseph Conrad]; illustrated by Bernard Brett 72 · Correspondence 72 · [letter] · Stephen Spender · lt 72 · [letter] · Bernard Bergonzi · lt 74 · [letter] · G. D. Holiday · lt 75 · [letter] · Mary Voyle · lt 76 · [letter] · Kingsley Amis · lt 77 · The Bloomsbury Group, by J.K. Johnstone · Maurice Cranston · br 81 · The Spanish Temper, by V.S. Pritchett · Walter Starkie · br 84 · The Indifferent Horseman, by Maurice Carpenter · Kathleen Raine · br 84 · The Letters of Sara Hutchinson, by Kathleen Coburn · Kathleen Raine · br 88 · Something of the Sea, by Alan Ross · C. V. Wedgwood · br 88 · A Charm Against the Toothache, by John Heath-Stubbs · C. V. Wedgwood · br 88 · Moral Stories, by David Wright · C. V. Wedgwood · br 88 · The Holy Stone, by Thomas Blackburn · C. V. Wedgwood · br 96 · Therre Is Still a River, by Donald Ford · Michael Swan · br 96 · The Acrobats, by Mordecai Richler · Michael Swan · br 96 · The Wheel, by Christopher Leach · Michael Swan · br 96 · Look Not Upon Me, by Denys Jones · Michael Swan · br 96 · The Other Side of the Square, by Neil Macmillan · Michael Swan · br 101 · The Falling Stream, by Hester W. Chapman · Margaret Lane · br 101 · Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch · Margaret Lane · br 108 · About the Contributors · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #9, October 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 112pp, review) 11 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed 15 · Old Life for New · Norman MacCaig · pm 16 · The Mattress by the Tomato Patch · Tennessee Williams · ss 25 · Three Poems · Stephen Spender · gp _25 · Archaic Head · Stephen Spender · pm _25 · One · Stephen Spender · pm _26 · Dog Rose · Stephen Spender · pm 27 · Miss Wimpole [Part 2 of 2] · Jocelyn Brooke · ar 35 · The God-Quest · Peter Yates · pm 36 · Mother Kemsky · Maxim Gorki; translated by Moura Budberg · ss; illustrated by Stephen Gardiner 41 · Tragic Error · Richard Drain · pm 42 · The Westminster Bird · Maurice Woods · ss 53 · The Old Wooden Plough · David Collinson · pm 54 · Letter from England · Alan Ross · ar 59 · Arnold Bennett’s Novels · Angus Wilson · ar; illustrated by John Minton 68 · Cypriot Poetry: a little anthology 68 · Walls of Nicosia · Sofronis Sofroniou; translated by Maurice Cardiff & Lawrence Durrell · pm 69 · Letter · Pantelis Mechanikos; translated by Maurice Cardiff & Lawrence Durrell · pm 70 · The Ships · Nikos Kranidiotis; translated by Maurice Cardiff & Lawrence Durrell · pm 71 · Dead City · Chrystalleni Stavrou; translated by Maurice Cardiff & Lawrence Durrell · pm 72 · Correspondence 72 · [letter] · Peter Bywell · lt 73 · [letter] · John Kettle · lt 74 · [letter] · Lettice Cooper · lt 74 · [letter] · Luigi Guido · lt 76 · The Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler · Rex Warner · br 76 · Dialogue with Death, by Arthur Koestler · Rex Warner · br 78 · Strangers, by Antonia White · Francis Wyndham · br 78 · Children Are Bored on Sunday, by Jean Stafford · Francis Wyndham · br 78 · Death of a Town, by Kay Cicellis · Francis Wyndham · br 81 · The World in the Evening, by Christopher Isherwood · Thom Gunn · br 85 · A Vision of Beasts and Gods, by George Barker · Roy Fuller · br 88 · The Broken Cistern, by Bonamy Dobrée · James Michie · br 88 · Literature and Science, by B. Ifor Evans · James Michie · br 94 · The People of the Sea, by David Thomson · Louis MacNeice · br 99 · Comprendre · Christopher Hollis · lr 103 · In Case You Don’t Know · Anon. · bg

The London Magazine [v1 #10, November 1954] ed. John Lehmann (Chatto & Windus, 2/6d, 128pp, review) 13 · Foreword · John Lehmann · ed; illustrated by Keith Vaughan 15 · Winds · W. H. Auden · pm 17 · Consider the Lilies · Aldous Huxley · ss; illustrated by Philip Thompson 44 · Aubade · Ronald Smith · pm 45 · The Strawberry Mark · Alberto Moravia; translated by Angus Davidson · ss 46 · Authors of Today: Alberto Moravia · Katerina Wilczynski · il 52 · Anglo-Swiss; or, A Day Among the Alps · William Plomer · pm 58 · Hazlitt’s ‘Liber Amoris’ · Cyril Connolly · ar 64 · Not in the Guide-Books · Elizabeth Jennings · pm 65 · Recollections of Pontigny · Jean Stewart · ar 72 · The Revelation · Geoffrey Hill · pm 73 · Reflections 73 · A Letter of Advice · Mrs. Gaskell · lt Princeton University Library Chronicle 1953 75 · Conversations with James Joyce · Georges Borach; translated by Joseph Prescott · iv 78 · Maria of Brunico · Félicien Marceau; translated by Jean Stewart · vi 81 · Four Trees · Mary Reynolds · pm; illustrated by Colin Hays 82 · Correspondence 82 · [letter] · George A. Plimpton · lt 83 · [letter] · Thea Hush · lt 84 · [letter] · Kingsley Amis · lt 85 · The Letters of W.B. Yeats, by Allan Wade · C. Day Lewis · br 85 · The Identity of Yeats, by Richard Ellmann · C. Day Lewis · br 88 · Thucydides: The Pelopennesian War, by Rex Warner · C. M. Bowra · br 94 · George Orwell, by Laurence Brander · Maurice Cranston · br 99 · Self Condemned, by Wyndham Lewis · Alan Pryce-Jones · br 102 · Jumping Joan, by C.H.B. Kitchin · Michael Swan · br 102 · The White Wand, by L.P. Hartley · Michael Swan · br 108 · A Few Late Chrysanthemums, by John Betjeman · Alan Ross · br 108 · Counterparts, by Roy Fuller · Alan Ross · br 114 · Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford · Margaret Lane · br 122 · In Case You Don’t Know · Anon. · bg