12 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 26

Waugh And Hemingway

AT the sensitive age when Mr. Evelyn Waugh was learning to play cricket, he must have heard that the staff of Messrs. Chapman and Hall with the fatherly participation of their......

Snapshots Of The Common Man

Portrait of England : News from Somewhere. By Laurence -Thomp- son. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) Tills is the age of Mass Observation ; of the common man. Writers need no longer go to......

South African Complexities

Report on Southern Africa. By Basil Davidson. (Cape. 16s.) AFTER twenty gloomy pages Mr. Davidson pronounces that "a study of South Africa need not be a study in despair," but......