19 OCTOBER 1929, page 27

The Childhood Of Louis Xiii Nursery Life Three Hundred Years

Ago. By Lucy Crump. (Routledge. 10s. 6d.) THERE is no such unanswerable puzzle in all literature as the small part that children play in it. The silent nurseries of the past......

Mr. Eliot On Dante

Dante. By T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber. 3s. 6d.) IN his critical work Mr. T. S. Eliot is always fertile in sharp distinctions ; and this' faculty is admirably shown in his new......