10 SEPTEMBER 1937, Page 6

Someone has shown me a proof of a later page

of this issue containing a publisher's advertisement consisting of one poem from a book of verse just published. It happens to be a poem I like (actually, I believe, it first appeared in The Spectator), but I also like the idea. You could hardly apply it to a treatise on economics, but there are poems and poems, and it seems to me great sagacity to indicate what species of thing a particular volume of them is.

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