5 OCTOBER 1929, page 29

Love In A Prison

NEVER was such a romance as the Brownings' love-affair ! It-is incredible, yet it is true. The circumstances are prosaic in the extreme, prosaic to - the pitch - of absurdity.......

Dam Ships And Others

FOR a book to be introduced by Mr. H. M. Tomlinson and illustrated by Mr. Muirhead Bone of itself gives it an immedi- ate distinction. We recognize initially that such a book......

Criticism Ex Cathedra

The Profession of Poetry ; and Other Lectures. By H. W. Oarrod. (Oxford University Press. 12s. tid.) THERE is a vein of acidity in Professor Garrod's criticism. These lectures......