27 FEBRUARY 1971, page 18

John Bayley On Studies In German Literature

'German', wrote Pushkin, 'is the only liter- ature in which the critics preceded the authors.' Pushkin in fact knew very little about it, but his perception has point : since......

R. M. Hartwell On Industrial Poverty

Mr Inglis has written a long, straight- forward, undocumented and highly conven- tional social history of the industrial revolu- tion, concentrating on the poor and on attitudes......