2 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 15

1749-1949 By way of ballast, there hat been plenty of

Goethe, in honour of the bi-centenary . This series of Goethe programmes during the year would, as they say, fill a book, and indeed has done so. The B.B.C. are now publishing them in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749z1949: A Radio Commemoration. I confess to not having enjoyed the rather prosy version of Egmont earlier this year; but much look forward to Mr. Louis MacNeice's new translation of Faust