SOME QUARTERLIES The Criterion (Edited by T. S. Eliot, 7s.
fkl.) maintains its supremacy among literary periodicals. To the July number, Mr. Ezra Pound contributes an essay on the late Harold Monro which is a refreshing change from the death-bed manner of the conventional obituarist. Mr. L. C. Knights writes on " Education and the Drama in the Age of Shakespeare," and sets out to refute customary notions of the ignorance of an Elizabethan audience. There is a finely written short story, " Climacteric," by Mr. Peter Quennell, the usual chronicles and a well-assorted collection of reviews.
In the June issue of This Quarter (Edited by Edward Titus, 5s.), considerable space is devoted to Goethe, both editorially and in translations, among the writers of which are Herr Ludwig Lewissohn and Mr. W. J. Turner. Mr. Humbert Wolfe writes on " The Limits of Obscenity," and decides that the present generation of writers have reached them. There are a good collection of poems and short stories. Three pages of The Flying Column are devoted to a discussion of some remarks which Mr. T. S. Eliot made on " The Writing of Poetry " in the course of an essay on George Herbert in the Spectatof last March. The June issue of Life and Letters (Edited by Desmond MacCarthy, 2s. 6d.) contains an interesting study of Sir Walter Scott by Lord David Cecil, a short story, " Seth," by Mr. Evelyn Waugh, and chronicles by Mr. Peter Quennell and Mr. Austin Clarke.
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