Raymond Carr
I much enjoyed and admired No Mosley's The Green Book of Poetry (Frontier Publishing, £14.95), not so much for its message as for its remarkable selection of poetry from a wide variety of sources: Israeli, German, French, Italian, Latin, classical and modern Greek, Australian (white and aboriginal), Turkish, Hungari- an, Yiddish, Korean, Persian, Czech, West Indian, African, Syrian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, as well as Mosley's own excellent translations from the Japanese. David Newsome's learned and enjoyable The Convert Cardinals (John Murray, £25) supplements Robert Gray's moving biogra- phy of Manning and, with luck, may halt the canonisation of Newman. Surtees, like Trollope a second-rate writer addicted to foxhunting, should attract readers outside the hunting field — Surtees himself observed that one book goes a long way with foxhunters — as a result of Norman Gash's Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society (Clarendon Press, £40). ,
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