28 JANUARY 1944, page 18

Russian Poetry

THESE two anthologies of Russian poetry cover the same period of, roughly, a hundred years, from Pushkin to Blok. Mr. Bowra's selection is considerably the longer and includes......

Prime Ministers And Others

THIS slight supplement to Lady Oxford's Autobiography is less like a book than a conversation recorded on a dictaphone : on the whole, a gay conversation, wandering from point......

Fiction

Sailor's Song. By James Hanley. (Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) Word Without End. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.) Pathfinders. By Cecil Lewis. (Peter Davies. 9s.......