18 DECEMBER 1942, page 18

Setting Foot In The East

Letters from Syria. By Freya Stark. (John Murray. 95.) WHAT drives Englishmen, and, more rarely, Englishwomen, to the Arab East, can seldom be precisely defined : the source of......

The Visionary Painters

British Romantic Artists. By John Piper. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) THERE were good poets, good painters, flourishing in England in the first years of the eighteenth century, and yet it......

Riddles Of The Universe

The Circle of Life. By Kenneth Walker. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) IN his Diagnosis of Man Mr. Kenneth Walker wrote a remarkable work that deservedly received very wide attention, and has......