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The Off-white Whale

IN a neat backhander of an introduction, John Huston recalls that while Moby Dick was being filmed in the Canary Islands, Charles Hamblett (there to write a book about it) was......

Still A-roving

THE author of this book and myself happen to belong to the same London club, and when I asked the hall-porter the other day if he had seen him lately, he replied briefly : 'No,......

The Courts Of The Vatican

REPORT ON THE VATICAN. By Bernard Wall. (Weidenfeld and N icolson, 21s.) Tim Vatican, whether or not one accepts its claim of indestruc- tibility and infallibility, is the most......

Postlapsarian Pluralist

LITERARY ESSAYS. By David Daiches. (Oliver and Boyd, Ms.) THE decisive word for Dr. Daiches's cast of mind as a critic is one of his own favourites—`postlapsarian.' It is wrong......