22 NOVEMBER 1940, page 40

Turn Of The Tide

Selected Poems. By Henry Newbolt. (Nelson Classics. 2s.) THE literary tide has turned since the days when we laughed at "Clifton Chapel" and " Vitai Lampada,' and it is Mr. John......

The Clockmaker's Art

Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks. By R. W. Symonds. (Batsford. 2 gns.) THERE are few trades in which, technologically speaking, the nineteenth and twentieth......

Before The Play

Rare Prologues and Epilogues. 1642-1700. Edited by Autrey Nell Wiley. (Allen and Unwin. Iss.) THIS finely edited selection of prologues and epilogues more or less inaccessible......