12 NOVEMBER 1954, page 24

Courting

A History of Courting. By E. S. Turner. (Michael Joseph. 15s. A CAVE-MAN drags his fiancee by the hair across the first page, and before the end the GI brides are in America,......

Execrable Sovereign

rEw rulers can have been so generally loathed as Nicholas I, Tsar nj Russia. Swelling with righteous indignation at the rape of ,rOland, Lord Tennyson trenchantly described him......

Fragments Of A Legend

Quite Early One Morning. By Dylan Thomas. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) Tins book contains 'all that can be preserved in print of Dylan 'Thomas's contribution to the broadcasting medium,'......