1 MARCH 1957, Page 25

praise be, has dropped his maddening custom of prefacing each

with a trumpet voluntary of praise. None of the three distinguished English contributors---;Lord Dunsany, Roy Vickers and Anthony Gilbert--is on top of his form, though Mr. Vickers's propaganda story in favour of retaining capital punishment is ingenious, even if nothing like so moving as the American Eleazar Lipsky's piece of special pleading from the other side.