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...Strong, that many children enter school with a natural liking for poetry and are taught to dislike it. Who is to blame? Why, the poetry teachers, answers Strong, who has been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have connected it with effeminacy, goings-on, incapacity for sport...
Something like a Father. C. S. Lewis' new book, to be published in the U.S. this month, is called Miracles, A Preliminary Study (Macmillan; $2.50). Its tightly constructed theological argument: that the miraculous ("interference with Nature by supernatural power") not only can exist but has existed in human history. "Naturalists," who see nature as "the whole show," with no room for a creative God in the picture, will be baffled or repelled. But those who accept the basic Christian concept of a Creator-God will be rewarded with a full measure of the quality Lewis' devotees have come...
Then Tory Walter Elliot tangled with Laborite Malcolm Macmillan. Elliot: "The honorable member . . . who has totally failed to get office under any Government, is very anxious to get it now." Macmillan: "[Elliot] has himself been kicked out of every office he has held...
...Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait, Macmillan...
...March 11, 1946), Oxford's witty Christian Apologist C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters) imagines this celestial meeting with the man he acknowledges as the greatest influence in his life. Just published in the U.S. is Lewis' full-dress tribute to his master-George Macdonald: an Anthology (Macmillan...