12 AUGUST 1955, page 26

East Coaster

ONCE UPON A TIDE. By Hervey Benham. (Harrap, 18s.) FROivi Defoe to Dickens, or the two centuries which lie just beyond the reach of memory, is the period covered in Once Upon a......

New Novels

THE CAPRI LETTERS. By Mario Soldati. (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) As it emerges in books and plays, the society of the American Deep South seems as remote as that of provincial......

Horace Greeley : Nineteenth Century Crusader,' By Glyndon...

Deusen, reviewed last week, is distributed in this country by Geoffrey Cumberlege, on behalf of the University of Penn- sylvania Press, price 40s.......

Erratum We Regret That On Page Iii Of Last Week's

issue of the Spectator the rate of interest offered by St. Pancras Building Society was inadvertently printed as 31 per cent. This should have been 3 per cent. The correct......