24 APRIL 1953, page 13

Lesbos

(Song from a play) The Pleiades are sinking calm as paint, And earth's vast camber follows out, Twining in sleep, the oceanic curve, Reflected in the concave of the human eye, ,......

After The Banquet

We thought we did this for ourselves, Working our will to know each other, Striving to come, like Plato's halves, Irreducibly together. All the world over it is known That when......

Art

Tough and Tender. SIR HERBERT READ once divided cubists into the tough and the tender —instancing Leger, Feininger and Metzinger on the one hand, Braque and Gris on the other.......

Cinema

Journal d'un Cure de Campagne. (Curzon.)—The Desert Rats. (Odeon.)—Niagara. (Plaza.) Journal d'un Cure de Campagne is an austere but powerful adaptation of M. Georges Bernanos'......