14 APRIL 1950, page 28

A Voice From The 'thirties

Collected Shorter Poems : 1930-1944. By W. H. Auden. (Faber. 1 ss.) A POET-CRITIC (a pygmy, but a symptomatic one) not long ago dismissed Auden as " already a period-piece." Now......

Can The Camera Lie ?

Our Changing Schools. By Roger Armfelt. (H.M.S.°. as.) AT first sight, Mr. Armfelt's account of our schools would seem to be " roses, roses-all the way." The book is lavishly......

Life With D. H. Lawrence

Portrait.of a Genius, But ... By Richard Aldington. (Heinemann. ss.) IT is possible that every prophet who has yearned for power, like every - man of action who has attained it,......