24 JANUARY 1941, page 18

A Translator's Problems

Translation. from Horace, Juvenal, and Montaigne. By R. C. Trevelyan. (Cambridge University Press. 75. 6d.) IN speaking of his translation of two of Montaigne's essays, printed......

Fiction

Devotes of the short story—among whom "include me out," as Sam Goldwyn used to say—would probably tell me that Miss Elizabeth Bowen's gifts are very well suited to it; and it is......

London Life

The Streets of London Through the Centuries. By Thomas Burke. (Batsford. los. 6d.) Jr you expect a book on the streets of London to tell you some- thing about the streets built......

Apology For Beckmesser

IF it means anything at all to him, the name of Edward Hanslick suggests to the average musical reader the embodiment of academic obscurantism and of a peevish opposition to the......