28 APRIL 1923, Page 25

Verse and prose, from Shakespeare to Herbert Spencer, with parallel

Spanish translations, including Pombo's rendering of " The Bridge of Sighs," Caro's of Shelley's " Skylark," and Perez Bonalde's crooning version of Poe's " The Raven." Mr. Williams's brief introduction on translating is sound, but he overlooks a whole branch of the subject, the associative values of words.