2 OCTOBER 1920, Page 20

Luduig Holberg. By S. C. Hammer. (Oxford : Blackwell. 2s.

net.)—Mr. Hammer's interesting address, delivered at Magdalen College, Oxford, last year, emphasized the fact that Holberg, the Norwegian contemporary of Swift and Pope, was a student at Magdalen from 1706 to 1708 and was profoundly influenced by his Oxford experiences. Heiberg, dramatist, historian and essayist, is venerated in Norway and Denmark as Shakespeare is venerated in England. He was born at Bergen in 1684, but he spent most of his life in Copenhagen, where he died in 1754. Mr. Hammer sketches his career and describes his principal works, showing that the comedies by which he is known to English readers formed only a part of Holberg's literary output.