15 NOVEMBER 1935, page 28

Gaudeamus Igitur

Gaudy Night. By Dorothy Sayers. (Gollancz. 8s. Gd.) To Miss Dorothy Sayers, with whose name we -couple that i, which is inseparable from it—the name of Lord Peter Wimsey—we owe......

An Heir To Poe And Whitman

Poems. By Archibald MacLoish. (Boriswood. 7s. 6d.) Ma. MaeLmsn is a properly American poet, and for publishing him at last in England Messrs. Boriswood deserve something more......

Illuminated Texts

THE function of the critic is not easy to define. He may be the rebuking judge, deciding " this will never do." He may be only a tipster hawking his Cert. of the Month. lie may......