Trish Street Ballads. By Colm O'lochlainn. (constable....
is an excellent collection of Irish street ballads, sogte of them traditional, some known to be the work of a single author, complete with the tunes to which they were (or are)......
Edith Sitwell's Anthology. (gollancz. 7s. 6d.) This Is An...
collection ' which strikes an excellent balance between the familiar and the little known, and includes a delightful selection of light verse, ballads and children's rhymes ; it......
Shorter Notices
Men, Martyrs and Mountebanks. By Beverley Baxter. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) Tim book—an "Inner Story of Personalities and Event s Behind the War "—is much better than its facile......
The Latest Addition To The Nonesuch Library Contains A...
tion from Pushkin's plays, prose and poetic stories, folk tales, and lyrics. The selection is well made, but the book suffers from the very varying standards of success reached......
Fiction
A REVIEWER of fiction, opening a new parcel of novels on a cold, unpromising morning, when the rest of the post hasn't been so good, is liable to give them a cold, unpromising......
Dumas Pere, Despite All That Has Been Written About Him,
re- mains an excellent subject for a biographer with any talent, so packed with incident was his life, so dynamic his character, and so variegated his writings. Mr. Todd has,......