4 MAY 1951, page 24

A Storyteller In Verse The Complete Poems Of Robert Frost.

(Cape. 185.) IT may seem that verse is an inappropriate medium for stories which are merely incidental—such as how a salesman calls to buy a plantation of firs for Christmas......

Benefactor Of Oxford

The Life of Dr. John Radcliffe, 1652-1714. By Campbell R. Holm. (Faber. I ' • DR. JOHN RADCLIFFE rose from humble circumstances to wealth and fame, yet there was nothing of the......

Laugh As You Learn Here's England. By Ruth Mckenney And

Richard Bransten. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. (1-fart-Davis. 21s.) THERE is an enervating jocularity about this book (intended for American visitors) which appears to be......