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'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed edition, but it exists, and I am reading him all over again. Hale White is a great writer who adopted a form which he never learnt how to use: the novel. His construction is usually naïf to the point of absurdity. But he is full of great stuff, and a most genuine stylist—one of the best, I think.'