5 MARCH 1932, page 34

Three Lives

THERE are various reasons why People read biographies— apart from the universal reasons for reading at all—which veer between the desire to grasp life and the desire to escape......

An Eighteenth Century Poet

TEE early eighteenth century was a Golden Age for meal of letters. But the happy time soon passed. Butler died in 1380, Dryden in 1700. "And honest Butler dyed exceeding poor,......