19 DECEMBER 1941, page 13

Books Of The Day

The Pierian Spring Goethe and the Greeks. By Humphry Trevelyan. (Cambridge University Press. 18s.) _- AT first sight a book like this seems remote enough from our present......

Persia Today

Modern Iran. By L. P. Elwell-Sutton. (Routledge. I2S. 6d.) MR. awELL - SurroN portrays modern Iran as a country which, lodged beween the Oriental and Occidental worlds, draws......

Housman And His Publisher

HOUSMAN'S character was such that many who did not know him, and not a few perhaps who did, have wondered what he was really like ; and the appearance of another volume......