12 DECEMBER 1952, page 28

Fiction

IN a recently-published study, The Art of Simenon, M. Narcejac sets out to demolish the view that M. Simenon is, or ever has been, a crime novelist in the ordinary sense, and he......

Music And Industrialism Mr. Netfel Established His...

book—Music in the Five Towns—which remains a landmark in the history of music studies. The aesthetic abstraction of nineteenth-century musicians was such that no one had thought......

The Senator

The painted tribesmen stared at him with wonder As they saw him walking in the gardens alone, Or sipping white wine on his prim Roman verandah Among the statues and the urns of......