13 APRIL 1956, page 32

Botanising

THE POCKET GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS. By David McClintock and R. S. R. Fitter. (Collins, 25s.) THE only complaint I have against this book is that it should have been published......

Types Of Landscape

THIS is the first book of Sydney Tremayne's verse that I hal encountered, though he has published two previous volumes, and it is therefore impossible for me to say what stage......

Deb

VICTORIAN VINAIGRETTE. By Ursula Bloom. (Hutchinson, 165.) MEMORIES. By Ethel Barrymore. (Hulton Press, 21s.) URSULA BLOOM is a practised confectioner of books, and, fashioning......

The Death Penalty

REFLECTIONS ON tIANGING. By Arthur Koestler. (Gollancz, 12s. 60 IT has become a routine incantation of the defenders of capita' punishment that abolitionists are emotionalists,......