6 MARCH 1942, page 20

Shorter Notice The Life Of William Blake. By Alexander...

Edited by Ruthven Todd. (Everyman Library. 3s.) AMONG the most_ readable books which yet cannot be described as great books, Gilchrist's original Life of William Blake takes a......

Fiction

ON the title-page of what appears to be his first published Mr. McLaverty offers its theme in lines of Gerard Hopkins: " As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a .dull cage mounting......