19 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 26

Fiction

IT could be demonstrated, I think, that the presence in a novel in however embryonic a form of what we may call a philosophy of life has an important influence upon the......

The Piano Develops

History of the Piano. By Ernest Closson. (Paul Elek. .12s. 6d.) " Avec un phlegme anglais se traine le piano " — so apparently sang the French vaudevillist in 1771. We do not......

Agricultural Ulster

Rural Life in Northern Ireland. By John M. Mogey. (Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 15s.) THE increased production of home-grown food, we are again told, is an......