23 NOVEMBER 1934, page 17

Two Epigrams T.

To Cynthia Tan sculptor's chisel slid askance And dinted Aphrodite's cheek : But ah ! the blemish woke a glance So lively-lovelier than the Greek That Nature, copying, forebore......

Past And Present: Have We Improved ?

By ROSE MACAULAY A RE the English_ (British, of course I mean) on the whole a more agreeable and virtuous people in the twentieth century than in centuries past ? The only......