27 DECEMBER 1940, page 18

Fiction

IN the remote-seeming days of leisurely and somewhat gluttonous Christmas holidays it was an easy reviewer's gambit to commend volumes of short stories as a mild intellectual......

Flagons Of Comfort

MR. MAURICE HEALY has written a book after Professor Saintsbury's heart, and I doubt if there is any compliment which would please him more. Stay Me With Flagons is really a......

Pope Today

THE difficulty with Pope is that he was so tremendously, so rigorously of his own age. If we read him today with pleasure, it is chiefly because, in this period of distracted......

The Portuguese In Africa

South-East Africa, 1488-1530. By Eric Axelson. (Longmans. iss.) THE Republic of Portugal has lately been celebrating the 800th anniversary of the foundation in 'Lao of the......