12 NOVEMBER 1948, page 26

Fiction

THE atomic bomb is to this age what the pox was to the Elizabethans. Our writers must need express, our obsession• with it. Even Mr. Neil Guru; writing fantasy against a......

Play-writing

The Art of the Play. By Hermon Ould. (Pitman. 12s. 6d.) By concentrating on the principles that underlie play-conception and play-construction Mr. Ould has produced a book that......

The British Raj

The British Achievement in India. By H. G. Rawlinson. Hodge. 15s.) A FEW weeks ago two old friends from India sat in a London club discussing Hyderabad, Kashmir and the many......