15 NOVEMBER 1946, page 20

Nature And Nurture

The Teaching of English in Schools. A Symposium edited for the English Association by Vivian de Sola Pinto. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) IT is good that the teacher should from time to......

Everybody's Companions

I Talk of Dreams. By Kenneth Walker. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) THERE are not, it is said, many speeches that alter votes in the House of Commons, and there are relatively few......

The Queen Of The Virtues

LUCAS DE PENNA has hitherto been little more than a name to the English jurist. He was a Post-Glossator ; " verbosi in re facih, in difficili muti, in angusta diffusi" was......