19 SEPTEMBER 1941, page 20

Shorter Notices

The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. By George Sampson. (Cambridge University Press. iss.) MR. SAMPSON has potted the famous Cambridge history which was in 14......

Although The Old Testament Is Regarded With Suspicion Or...

by not a few people, neither the history of Palestine, nor archaeology, nor the non-canonical literature can allow that decisive break we are apt to find between B.C. and A.D.......

Enance And Investment

By CUSTOS AFTER such a breath - taking rise there should be no surprise that stock markets have now paused. Technical influences alone would have called a halt sooner or later,......

Gracious Majesty. By Laurence Housman. ,cape. 8s. 6d.)

MR. HOUSMAN'S preface is disarming, but the impression remains that his Potage a la Reine has suffered a good deal of thinning. It is difficult to define why this criticism......