10 MAY 1945, page 18

That Insufficiently Appreciated Poet—and Great...

regard to Northern England: Flower upon flower expands : May reigns in hawthorn lands. Gone are the saffron daughters of the snow. This surprising May the snow arrived at a date......

The New English Review, May, 1945. (eyre And...

6d. THIS monthly periodical, now revived under the editorship of Douglas Jerrold, makes an excellent fresh start in its May number. It contains two articles of exceptional merit......

Shorter Notices

Lovely Is the Lee. By Robert Gibbings. (Dent. 12s. 6d.) LOVELY is the Lee no doubt ; but that is not Mr. Gibbings' theme —not, anyway, more than an incidental phase of it. His......

Fiction

The Wide Net, and Other Stories. By Eudora_ Welty. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) The Lost Week-End. By Charles Jackson. (The Bodley Head. 8s. 6d.) The Wide Net is Eudora Welty's......