20 JUNE 1952, page 22

Partridge On The Wing

HERE we have a man of words, a lexicographer, exercising himself very pleasantly as a nian of letters. The result is a charming, occa- sionally irritating, but nearly always......

Seventh City Of Christendom

THAT hard-worked phrase " dear, dirty Dublin " cannot possibly strike many visitors to the noble city so admirably described in Mr. Craig's book as being particularly revealing.......

Seventeen Painters

Modern English Painters : Sickert to Smith. By John Rothenstein. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 25s.) WITH this collection of essays on seventeen English artists who were born between......