25 APRIL 1952, page 24

New Novels

GENIUS is notoriously difficult to write about, because it is unpre- dictable. Of the laws by which it works we know only that they are different from those which govern talent.......

Breach Of Promise

RECENTLY in the Irish Times the distinguished doyen of Anglo-Irish letters, Mr. Seamus O'Sullivan, pleaded wittily, a propos of a bio- graphy of Oliver Goldsmith, for an attack......

Professional Exploration

EACH generation has its psychological fashions, and resurrects men who can symbolise its climate of thought. A life like Kierkegaard's suddenly, after a hundred years of......