26 MAY 1950, page 22

Virtuoso Solo

AFTER his dozen years in California Aldous Huxley remains a most sensitive recorder of the aesthetic emotion, and one of the most accomplished writers of the century. What he......

Romantic Antiquary

William Stukeley. By Stuart Piggott. (Clarendon Press. ifls.) IT is a strange and infantile propensity of the grown mind which. even in the company of sober scholarship,......

Dryden's Excellences

John Dryden.. By David Nichol Smith. The Clark Lectures, 1948-.0. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) THE study of English literature as a branch of learning has spread widely......