11 NOVEMBER 1960, page 36

Miscellanies

HERE are the miscellanies. The Sapphire Treasury (Gollancz, 15s.) reveals a markedly personal taste. The bulk of the book is Made up of Collodi's 'Pinocchio' and The Stokesley......

Connoisseurs And Kids

I SUPPOSE the best football books to appear lately have been the recollections of peremptory Cull's and perennial Matthews. There were flavou rs , from the field of play and the......

Into Orbit

Eloise in Moscow. By Kay Thompson. (Max Reinhardt, 15s.) HERE are three very different ways of presenting books for children. Eloise in Moscow, at first glance a book both for......

Roots, Wrists, And Noses, Or The Bald Teddy Bear

MORE competent drawing is done in England now than in Arthur Rackham's time; a little of it—far too little—evades the gross insensitivity of publishers and gets into books for......