10 OCTOBER 1947, page 20

Apostle Of Culture

"My poems," wrote Matthew Arnold to his mother in 1869, "repre- sent, on the whole ' the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have......

Against Illusions

The Steep Places. By Sir Norman Angell. (Hamish Hamilton. 8s. 6d.) IT is over thirty years since the reviewer had last occasion to com- ment on the writings of Sir Norman......