7 FEBRUARY 1941, page 24

The Loeb Classical Library. (heinemann And Harvard. Nos....

THERE is a touch of the heroic in the way this library continues to appear, shoring up the remains of classical antiquity at a time when the Romantic spirit is loose over......

15 Poets. (humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 6s.)

IN spite of the preface, which explains : " It is hoped that Fifteen Poets will serve as a link between the normal type Of anthology, in which a large number of poets are each......

Capital Crimes

IT is perhaps Miss Marsh's chief merit that she almost succeeds at the impossible task of preserving an equilibrium between the realistic and the phantastic sides of the......

Shorter Notices

IT is pleasant to think that in spite of the distractions, and the burdens, of war, the Royal Historical Society has been able thi s year to continue the publications of the......

Sweet Thames Run Softly. Written , Ind Illustrated By...

(Dent. 12s. 6d.) THE rather unbearable ramblings, mental and physical, of an artist who explored the Thames in a punt. Hearty, muscular; humorous and naughty, Mr. Gibbings......