14 MAY 1927, page 25

Israel : The Life And Times Of Edgar Allan Poe.

By Henry Allen. (Brentano's. 44s.) IT is regrettable that we have no opportunity to discuss this work in some detail, for we fully realize its importance. It comes to us as a......

Edmund Burke. By Bertram Newman. (bell. Is. 6(1.)...

begins increasingly to be practised as an art, and Mr. Newman's book on Burke is a good example of this. He combines a living presentment of the man with an outline of Burke's......

Lord Byron In His Letters. Selected By V. H. Collins.

(Murray. 12s.) HERS is a useful, because representative, selection of Byron's letters which should serve to stir our minds to fresh contem- plation of thiS extraordinary man.......

Practically True. By Ernest Thesiger. (heinemann. 8s....

tells us in his amusing book that at a certain first night he noticed a young person of about fifteen writing notes on her programme. " I was told that she was the daughter of a......