2 NOVEMBER 1929, page 25

The Spirit Of Man

The Testament of Beauty is, I think, the greatest English poem of our time. It is a poem not of romance but of " high argument," Dr. Bridges' essay de return natura. If it seems......

Ordeal By Fire Further Letters By Vincent Van Gogh. Written

to his Brother, 1886-89. (Constable. 31s. 6d.) THESE letters make painful but heroic reading. They should not be given to the Philistine, for they would afford him too gloating......