12 MAY 1950, page 28

A Chilled Age

MUSING near Aquapendente in 1837, Wordsworth sadly , observed: " The Stream Has to our generation brought and brings Innumerable gains ; yet we, who now • Walk in the light of......

The Pastoral Dream

England's Helicon. Edited by Hugh Macdonald. The Muses Library. (Routledge & Kegan Paul. 8s. 6d.) THIS Elizabethan anthology of pastoral lyrics was collected in 1600 from the......

Siaccess Without Security

The Story of an Orchestra. By Boyd Neel. (Vox Mundi. los. 6d.) THIS is a remarkable success story, but told with such personal modesty and such exclusively communal......