24 MARCH 1933, page 24

Practice Makes Perfect

Paul Valery. By Theodora Besanquet. (Hogarth Press. Os.) Pius is a good and instructive essay because the critic has been content to efface herself behind her subject. Occa-......

The " Scottish Chaucer"

RECENTLY there have been signs of renewed interest in the Scottish poets of the fifteenth century. The Celtic fringe is no longer in favour, and young Scots writers have turned......

Strained Analogy

Strindberg and Shakespeare. By Joan Bulman. (Cape. 6s.) IF one's aim was to show up Strindberg . in all his irascible weakness one could not "do better than compare him with......