20 MARCH 1953, page 28

" In All Poetry There Is An Element Of Dramatisation,"

says Professor Muir in his introduction to this small and compact anthology of Elizabethan lyrics. But that is only one of the many true and observant things he has to tell the......

Shorter Notices

The Stratford Festival. By T. C. Kemp and J. C. Trewin. (Cornish Brothers. 25s.) MR. TREWIN quotes the Cornishman who went to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1769 to hear Garrick recite......

Tim Congregation Of Spanish And Portuguese Jews From...

present Anglo-Jewish Community derives was formed in London in 1656, and one of its first tasks was the drawing up of a code of laws (Ascamoth) under which the Congregation,......

Tins Book Presents About Three Hundred, Mostly...

Debates in almost every year of the nineteenth century; it is not un"ce a series of regular scientific "readings. " Under such circum- stances personalities are......