Modern Review September 1936

I cannot remember my mother but when in the early autumn morning the smell of the shivN flowers floats in the air the scent of the morning service in the temple comes to me as the scent of my mother. [...] All this means that he is pre-eminently a problem poet; and his problems are of the greaest that man can know those relating to God the universe and the supreme issues of human life; therefore they concern the men and women of all lands whether Europe or Asia or America or the islands of the sea. [...] Necessarily therefore his poems must be dramas of the internal life of human beings —tracing the workings of passion the influence of motives the pursuit or abandonment of ideals the sway of mind over mind —all those intricate and marvellous processes of the soul by means of which character is built up or destroyed and human destinies are wrought out. [...] Part of the present Government's propganda in the interests of recruiting and of ecouraging the man in the street to face the icreased taxation which will he necessary to pay for armaments is worth commenting On at this juncture. [...] And the man in the street feels puffed up when the King passes at the head of his Guards " after the Trooping the ' Colour ceremony.