22 MAY 1947, page 24

The Shadow Of Hazlitt

The Life of William Hazlitt. By P. P. Howe. (Hamish Hamilton. 15s.) A nitruiANT spirit, a critic of genius, a man delighting almost feverishly in the visual arts, ardent for......

Irish Point Of View

WE must forgive the Irish if they laugh at us ; be grateful if they do no worse. Few reversals of historical fortune can be funnier than that of the once oppressing English, who......

The Warlike Harry

ONCE granted that the gaze of the student of world-history is to be directed upon a series of individuals seen against a background of their times, Dr. Jacob is to be......