24 FEBRUARY 1939, page 30

Times And Places

A Flying Start : A Memory of the Nineteen Twenties. By Rene MacColl. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) The Sheltering Tree : An Autobiography. By Netta Syrett. (Bles. los. 6d.) Indian Ink. By......

Genius And Insanity

THE strange, rich beauty of Smart's Song to David, written while the author was supposed to be out of his mind and published in 1763, needs to be recalled as the preliminary to......