25 MAY 1956, page 28

Books

Scottish Romantic BY ANTHONY HARTLEY OST of us have in common the book we read during childhood, and I fancy that one of the farthest-flung pioneers of the school library was,......

More Boreal I

d. A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. By Hugh MacDiarru Jr needs only Dr. David Daiches to say that there is no ne d to defend Hugh MacDiarmid's 'synthetic Scots' at this time al......