13 MARCH 1964, page 22

It's A Crime

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH'S The Two Faces of Janu- ary (Heinemann, 21s.) reasserts her mastery of suspense writing and her ability to create plausible, shocking deaths. An uncanny......

Barrel Bottom

I HAVE not, before this book, read a volume of short stories by H. E. Bates. I've seen one or two, in anthologies, that did not impress me. But one forgot those—after all, Bates......

Protest Merchants

IT takes an effort to recall the passions evoked at the time by the Rosenbergs' trial and execu- tion. Only a few years later, when two of the Rosenbergs' erstwhile accomplices......