Little World Made Cunningly
The Metaphysical Poets. Edited by Helen Gardner. (Penguin Books, 5s.) IT would be an exaggeration to say that people didn't read Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell and the rest......
Glasgow, My Glasgow
THIS is an autobiography which turns into a hymn to Glasgow. It takes the view that there is an element of 'scruffiness' in any form of vivid or vigorous action, that Glasgow......
Lives In The Balance •
The Adopted Child. By•Mary Ellison. (Gollancz, 16s.) . , 'OF the world's nine hundred million children . two-thirds lack adequate food, clothing, shelter and protection against......
Political Backwater
Social and .Political Thought in Byzantium. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sir Ernest Barker. (0.U.P.. 30s.) Tests anthology, drawn , from Byzantine literature......
Previous page
