15 NOVEMBER 1930, Page 34

The Old Folk of the Centuries, by Lord Dunsany (Elkin

Mathews and Marra, 7s. ad.), is a dramatic allegory of the futility of modern education as compared with the idyllic advantages of rural life. It is rather more laboured than most of the author's plays, but it has its poetic moments and the individual characters are of more interest than the play as a whole.

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