17 NOVEMBER 1939, page 32

The Soil Of England

IN Farmer's Creed, his first book, Mr. Porteous began to tell the story of his escape from the prospect of life-imprison- ment in a Manchester cotton warehouse. He told there......

Last Journey

The March of Literature. From Confucius to Modern Times. By Ford Madox Ford. (Allen and Unwin. r6s.) THIS enormous posthumous book of Ford Madox Ford is a kind of literary......