5 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 26

Lost Leaders

The First Romantics. By Malcolm Elwin. (Macdonald. 15s.) "I' DO seriously believe,' wrote Coleridge in 1803, "that the chief cause of Wordsworth's and Southey's having been......

Book Notes

THE most comprehensive study of Shelley ever published is announced by Seeker and Warburg for September nth. This new biography, in two very hefty volumes, is the work of the......

Shorter Notices

Tins omnibus volume is the latest in the series which began with Novels of Mystery from the Victorian Age, and one of the most entertaining. Mr. Powell has done us a service in......