11 NOVEMBER 1955, page 23

The Shallow End

RUSSIAN HOLIDAY. By Allan Chappelow. (Harrap, 18s.) THE SOVIET UNION AFTER STALIN. By Helene and Pierre Lazareff. (Odhams, 16s.) IN A recent review I divided books on the Soviet......

Books

The Mind of Autolycus BY JOHN WAIN T HIS novel,* or rather this opening fragment of what was evidently going to be a long episodic narrative, has a quality that I can only call......