11 JANUARY 1957, page 27
The Savage Man
CHARLES CHURCHILL was a rare phenomenon—a satirist of large and generous instincts. He directed his rage against hypocrisy, persecution and the snivelling subterfuges of......
Crotchety Essayist
MR. RAMSAY, Virginia Woolf's portrait of her father in To the Lighthouse, is not a likeable man. He is a domestic tyrant riddled with self-pity and self-dramatisation, the kind......
New Novels
DURING 1956 new novels appeared at the rate of at least forty a week. With how many, of these did an ordinary fortnightly reviewer stand any chance of becoming acquainted? What......
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