4 OCTOBER 1957, Page 46

Cork in the Doghouse. By Macdonald Hastings. (Michael Joseph, 12s.

6d.) Bellicose, battle-scarred bull-terrier bitch (caricatured by dust-cover into bull-doggery) wins heart of dear old Mr. Cork, the elderly city gent, and solves her own mystery. Sentimental in a doggy sort of way, and most engaging : even cat-men must admire author's lively prose style, if not his taste in pets.