5 JANUARY 1940, page 26

Historical Marginalia

I HAVE sometimes wondered, since reviews in this age have rather taken the place of sermons in the last, why our writers have not the courage to republish their reviews as the......

The Complete Housman

The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THERE is so much that is poignantly topical in Housman's poetry that it is hard to see it dispassionately as poetry. A......