Title: The crane bag : and other disputed subjects.
Authors: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: Cassell,
Year: 1969
Subjects: Essays.; English essays.
Contents: The crane bag -- The language of monsters -- Two studies in scientific atheism -- The dour man -- Praise me, and I will whistles to you -- What was that war like, Sir? -- The case for Xanthippe -- The lost Atlantis -- Reincarnation -- The new English Bible -- Mr. Nabokov's democratic eclecticism -- A goy in Israel -- Forgotton loyalists -- Do you remember Albuhera? -- The pirates who captured Caesar -- A significant lecture at Mount Holyoke -- Tyger, tyger -- Five score and six years ago -- The decline in bullfighting -- The phenomenon of mass-tourism -- The idiom of the people -- My best Christmas -- Charterhouse flourishes -- Miss Briton's lady-companion -- The uses of superstition -- Witches today -- Translating the Rubaiyyat -- An absolute criminal.