31 MAY 1940, page 18

A Trip To America

JANET SCHAW, a cultivated spinster of Edinburgh, set out from Burntisland in October, 1774, to cross the Atlantic in an over- crowded vessel of eighty tons. She was accompanying......

Race Suicide ?

Culture and Survival. By Guy Chapman. (Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d.) THIS is a stimulating and well-written book upon an exceedingly important subject. How important that subject—the......

Swift: The Happy Years

Bickerstaff Papers. Edited by Herbert Davis. (Blackwell. 12s.) THE sardonic side of Swift seems so relevant to our times that we are apt to forget that he was once happy, for......