10 MAY 1957, page 25

New Novels

A Gallery of Women is a novel of rather baffling quality whose strength seems to lie in its capacity, to do the unexpected. We are started off in a perfectly conventional mode,......

Teenage Rebel

The Last Trek. By Sheila Patterson. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 28s.) IN England today most educated people con- fronted with aggressive and over-sensitive be- haviour in a boy......

First Murder

We remember the Titanic and Lusitania not because they were great disasters but because they were small ones. Such catastrophic events as the great Bengal famine of 1943 or the......