19 AUGUST 1949, page 14

Radio

I SHOULD very much have liked last week to listen to The Pilgrim's Regress, Mr. C. S. Lewis's allegory about "Christianity, Reason and Romanticism," because this is a mind that......

More Originality

Nor had I seen the film (by Mr. Emlyn Williams) of The Last Days of Dolsoyn, the story of the doomed Welsh village. There is some- thing to be said for being a stay-at-home: I......

'the New Solitude'

Happy the man whose country home With plumber's artifice abounds, Standing, with dignified aplomb, In its own grounds ; Whose grouse, and ghost in charnel gown Lure tenants from......

Although Newsprint Is More Plentiful Now Than At Any Lime

since pre-war days, it is still necessary to place a firm order with a bookstall manager or newsagent to ensure regular weekly delivery of the SPECTATOR. Newsagents cannot......

How Long ?

I cannot help wondering how long this melancholy business is to continue. We all know the apology for the highly variable reception of the Third Programme—that there is a......

Music

WHAT is originality in a work of art ? Is it always a question of manner, of saying old things in a new way, or arc there really new things to say ? All the arts have lately......