28 MAY 1948, page 22

Gold Buttons

FORD'S "flights of fancy," to use the words of Mr. Goldring, his remarkably sympathetic biographer, even now offer the literary historian such attractive pitfalls that only the......

Georgian Bath

The Georgian Buildings of Bath. By Walter Ison. (Faber and Faber. 52s. 6d.) ALTHOUGH nearly every book on architecture which makes its appear- ance does so with an announcement......

Poetry Of Undertones

For Endurance. Collected Poems. By Lilian Bowes Lyon. Intro- duced by C. Day Lewis. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) FOR nearly twenty years I have found pleasure in this poet's work. It has......