BOOKS - 'Moral, Grave, Sublime' BY JOHN WAIN A N inmportant part of the history of a nation is tile history of its entertainment, and in the case of the drama, when this is...

THlE EVANS CASE IN our correspondence colunins Mr. Eddowes. the author of a recent book o01 thle l vans/Christie cases, briefly ZCts Out his reasons for believing in the...

Portrait of the Week T HIS week has brought news of what can most aptly be described as skirmishing both at home and abroad. It is true that the incidents in the Gaza area have...

SANITY AT SOUTHPORT BiY Our Industrial Correspondent H UMAN beings bought and sold like cattle . . . conditions akin to slavery . . . the last bonded men in Britain'the first...

Harvest: New Style BY G. A. SQUIRES T'j~HREE of us, myself, my neighbour Lenny, and his brother Stanley, were grouped around the garden gate, waiting for the Sunday papers. We...

COMPANY NOTES By CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange markets enjoyed this week their first good rally for a fortnight or more. It was caused partly by the reassuring moderation of the...

ON MONEY MISMANAGEMENT By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT was Mr. Charles Geddes, not Mr. Butler, who restored the confidence of the City this week. The reason was obvious. The Stock...

Archeology Without Tears LASCAUX AND CARNAC. By Glyn Daniel. (Lutterworth, 15s.) 'WHAT can be nicer than a morning in the dark caves of Font de Gaume and Combarelles,...

Jazzman THE TROUBLE WITH CINDERELLA. By Artie Shaw. (Jarrolds, l 8s.) THE title of Mr. Shaw's autobiography sets the tone of the whole book. He has found his lucrative career...

AN AMERICAN commentator said recently that 'whatever the alleged damage of McCarthyism nothing hurt the prestige of the US more in foreign countries, particularly in Asia, than...

A Spectator's Notebook HYPOCRISY, this month's Encounter assures me, has always been regarded as a particularly English vice, owing to our reluctance to submit to...

I WAS very sorry to learn of Czechoslovak Prime Minister Zapotocky's ill-health last week. Luckily for him the Czechoslovak Health Service system has been altered since the...

A Summer Serial-Conclusion Samuel Deronda BY JOHN WAIN Fortune has smiled on .Saminel: hizs talent as a pastichcur has been rewarded with the reputation of a poet, and tinow,...

BRITA1N: AN OrrjciAr. HANDBOOK. (1I.M.S.O., I()s.) Tu,, 1955 edition of Britain is now availablea fatWr volume Wittl much new material. This truly invaluable handbook is still...

WEASELS AND VOlFS 'Myxornatosis, for me, seems to have killed two birds with one stone,' says a Yorkshire reader who draws attention to something that may have been noticed by...

NA'IUR.AISING Naturalising with bulbs appeals to many gardeners, and autumn is the time to think about it. for very pleasing effects can be obtained as the result of a little...

BYZANTINE! .SJ1JDIFS AND OTIJFR Essavs. By Norman ft. IBaynes. (Al lilone Press, 35s.) - THIS volume contains lectures, articles and reviews by Professor Norman Baynes, for...

Country Life BY IAN NIAI., THE swifts have been gone some time, and although sumnmer seems agreeably long, there is a rustle when the breeze makes the branches sway, the...

F'OR A HANDYMAN However optimistic he may be about labouLsaving methods, the gardener who thinks tie can stay off his knees is doomed to think again. Hle can spray weedkiller,...

Other Recent Books ENGLISH COUNTRY HousFs: 1EARLY GFOR6I^6N, 1715-1760. By Christopher Ilusscy. . r1 ,. , I v' (Count y Life, £6 6s.) EVERY amateur of English domestic...

Litvinov? No ii's 1 Olt A .I()I RNAL. Vy M axim Litvinov. (Andrd Deutsch, 18s.) l I:ssO( (',\i4It who introduces these memoirs, inclines to the view that ihev are in the main...

Bags of Money TO T1HE ONE I LOVE THE BEsr. By Ludwig Bemelmlans. (Hamish Hamilton, I5s.) FABULOUS MOGUL. By D. F. Karaka. (Andrd Deutsch, 15s.) PEOPLE say they only want a...

Federating Pakistan BY L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS T HE introduction of the Bill 'For the Establishment of West Pakistan' into the new Constituent Assembly represents the...

'FtIL WAR between religion and science is over at last. I see from a photograph in The Times ot the inaugural meeting o0 tne British Association that our scientists have taken...

A FRIEND who has been at the Trade Union Congress tells mc that he did a little sociological research into the reading habits of the delegates. Corn ,. out of the meeting for...

-in Dublin's Fair City BY D. W. BROGAN Y ES. They are. In the past (although I had not dared confess it) I had been disappointed. There were pretty girls to be seen, but no...

Letters to the Editor Evans or Christie? Compromise on Cyprus Arts Council Policy Images of Fear Michael Eddoaiveo D. N. Ascoli Harold Sore] Basil Taylor John S. Barwell FNANS...

ARIS COUNCIL POLICY SIR,--Mr. Philip James's courteous rebuttal of my passing criticism of the Arts Council gives me the opportunity to explain my case. We must all be grateful...

IMAGES OF FEAR SIR,-Brutus tells the ghost of Cmsar, 'that mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare.' After the murder of Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort exclaims: 'Comlb down...

SiR,-To anyone concerned with the conduct of justice in this country, both your article anid Mr. Michael Eddowes's book The Man on Your ConIxcienCce are profoundly disturbing....

COMPROMISE ON CYPRUS SIR,-Miss Ursula Branston, in her zeal 'to be fair' to the Cypriot Communists, endows them with a spurious consistency even they do not claim. During your...

UlJnmasked The language of conspirlacy is lostpasswords, almlbiguoUs whispcr s in the darkthe useless telephone hung up at last, whose tone could soothe or menace: 'Walk ahead...

Theatre MR. KErruE AND MRS. MOON. By J. B. Priestley. (Duchess.)-- THE WATER GIPSIES. By A. P. Herbert and Vivian Ellis. (Winter Garden.) TiE idea of the salaried...

Contemporary Arts Last Days at Edinburgh THE Azuma Kabuki company of dancers and musicians from Tokyo appear in the final week of this festival, contributing an exotic...

Festival Films FOR anyone interested in the motives behind film-making, the Edinburgh Film Festival has this year provided an interesting field for study. The festival opened...

Television TME Brains Trust is back, and visible. I should have said, offhand, that to see it sitting round a table would be likely to inspire and interest one more than to...

Art Tie, attention paid to the young, emerging artists, the painters and sculptors just out of art school or at least under the age of thirty, is one of tie most noticeable...

Cinema GEORDIE'. (Plaza.)-CAST A DARK SHADOW. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) FIrMs set in Scotland, like films set in Ireland, tend to disregard truth in favour of popular illusion,...

Political Commentary BY HENRY FAIRLIE A MISTAKE which many Bevanites have made during the ,A~past four years has been to underestimate the political skill and instinct of Mr....

Communism in China4 BY 0. B. VAN DER SPRENKEL QO NE way of explaining the new Clhina which is simple and straightforward (and incorrect) is to write it off as a Russian...

National Trust a Rearguard Action BY JOH-1N SM IT1-H IN the loiig and eccentric catalogue of English charities, there are a few-such as the Council for the Preservation of...

Strix With Fowler to Chungking I NOTI(LI) the otficr day that 71ll. 7linics cleerred to sonic notability as lhaving flown 'into' London Airport. This usage has for sonic time...

Physics and the Universe I FRONTIERS OF ASTRONOMY. By Fred Hoyle. (Heinemann, 25s.) I THE LAWS OF NATURE. By R. E. Peierls. (Allen and Unwin, 21s.) MR. HOYLE has written...

NASSER'S CHOICE LITTLE doubt can be felt as to who is immediately responsible for the recent frontier incidents between Israel and Egypt in the Gaza strip. Observers unite in...