10 MARCH 1939, page 28

Mr. Forster's Alexandria

Alexandria : a History and a Guide. By E. M. Forster. (Whitehead Morris. 7s. 6d.) IF our civilisation ever collapses, which seems most unlikely, and historians of the future......

The English Prison'

Meet the Prisoner. By John A. F. Watson. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) EVEN such admirable articles on our prisons as have appeared in The Spectator do not dispel altogether the uneasiness......

Poems From The Irish

"INSTEAD of springing from a philosophy," says Mr. O'Connor, in his brief introduction to the poems in The Fountain of Magic, " this poetry springs from a situation; it is......