10 NOVEMBER 1950, page 40

Impenetrably Queer

Orchids: Their Description and Cultivation. By Charles H. Curtis. (Putnam. £4. 4s. od.) THE peculiar fascination of orchids is hard to define, harder still to explain. The Greek......

Sacred And Profane

THE volume of human emotion excited by military bands and church choirs (of every dericimibatioti) must"- be imrifeasurably greater than that excited by musical noises of any......

Hardy Revalued

Thomas Hardy : the Novels and Stories. By Albert J. Guerard. (Oxford University Press. iis.) THIS book is one of three studies, on Hardy, Conrad and Gide, written to throw some......