11 JANUARY 1952, page 24

Exuberant Living

DISSERVICE is done to even the best of books when their publishers' blurbs are couched in extravagant or inaccurate terms. A Window on a Hill is a case in point. The blurb......

An Epic Fragment

Lost City of the Incas. by Hiram Bingham. (Phoenix House. 2 is.) WHEN, in about the year 1630, Fernando Montesinos was gathering material for his history of Peru, he obtained......

Frenchwomen In London

Paloma. By Mrs. Robert Henrey. (Dent. t ss.) WHEN people write in a language not their own, they often use words in a way that give new glitter to what had become tarnished with......

"on Thames' Broad Aged Back"

IT is a nice point who has the more exacting task, the chronicler or the topographer of Thames, the one in his choice of what to leave out and put in, the other in how to......