30 NOVEMBER 1945, page 11

It Is Thus Irksome For Any Essayist To Be Obliged

from time to time to write about subjects which, from their very nature, refuse to assume any but the most ungainly patterns. I am conscious that my article this week, in that......

In So Far As Essays And Criticism Are Concerned, I

should recom- mend any returning prisoner to read Horizon, New Writing, Day- light, and the old CornhM, which, under the editorship of Mr. Peter Quennell, is taking on a new......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON A LL essayists seek to give to their productions a certain symmetry of form. I have been abused by my friends on the giound that my Marginal Comments begin......

What, Therefore, About The Books Themselves? Here Comes...

Under the heading of Poetry I should place the follow- ing eleven books as indispensable for any person who wishes to know what, during these atrocious years, our older and our......

There Have Also Been Many Admirable Books Published Upon...

and the social sciences, and notably the following : —Bernard Shaw : Everybody's Political What's What (Constable). Freya Stark : East is West (John Murray). Sir William......