12 MAY 1939, page 32

The Plough And The Poet

" WHY," asks the author of this admirable book, " is it so hard to write a dull life of, say, Byron, and so easy to write a dull one of Burns? "—and this notwithstanding Burns's......

A Private Document

Finnegans Wake. By James Joyce. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) REALLY all a reviewer without a month's leisure can do is to describe externals : Finnegans Wake is 628 pages long, it is......