3 MAY 1946, page 20

The Writing Of Dan Mcgrew

Ploughman of the Moon : An Adventure into Memory. By Robert W. Service. (Benn. 15s.) AWAY in the early days of silent films few programmes can have passed at the local cinema......

Early Social History

Obligations of Society in the XII and XIII Centuries. By Austin Lane Poole. (O.U.P. 1946. 10s. 6d.) MR. POOLE'S Ford Lectures of 1944 are a very interesting and impor- tant......

Sons Of Liberty .

The World of Washington Irving. By Van Wyck Brooks. (Dent. 15s.) Tins extremely fine piece of romantic scholarship would have been worth reading at any time for its own sake ;......