5 AUGUST 1922, page 23

The London Mercury.

NE London Mercury contains an interesting study of Ibsen by Signor Croce, who evidently detests Ibsen's attitude towards life but has a profound admiration for his technique.......

The First Voyage.* Ix Casting About For A Subject On

which he shall first exercise his talent, the tyro novelist will obviously choose himself, or some other variation of the genus to which he belongs, thus building his first......

Fiction.

THE HOLY TREE* "THE poet," says Philip Sydney, "presents a lively image to the mind, of which the philosopher gives but a wordish descrip_ tion " ; and, under the title of poet,......