4 FEBRUARY 1938, page 12

What The Public Reads

By It. F. SCOTT T HERE are various means of gauging the public's literary taste. The lending libtpries, proprietary and free, are in a particularly good position to do it, and......

The Short-list Club

By W. L. LAMB T WELVE of us were crowded in a little ante-room. We were members of that select band of pedagogues, known as " short-list " men ; and we were competing for a......

Peace

NIGHT arches England, and the winds are still ; Jasmine and honeysuckle steep the air ; Softly the stars that are all Europe's fill Her heaven-wide dark with radiancy fair ;......

The Irrevocable Weep No More, Thou Weary One ; Tears—and

so beloved a face ! Raindrops on a daybreak flower— Token of cold midnight's grace— No more radiant are than these. Both of transient darkness tell ; And but one least beam of......