15 AUGUST 1947, page 26

Fiction

THE first venture of a highly successful painter into the field of creative writing is bound to arouse a great deal of interest. What view of life, one wonders in the case of......

Transformation 4. Edited By Stefan Schimanski And Henry...

Drummond. 8s. 6d.) THE theme of this fourth issue of Transformation is "the power within us "—the title of a book on Nufiez Cabeza de Vaca, a sixteenth- century Spanish......

Book Notes

THE text of Now Barabbas, William Douglas Home's play of prison life, which has had such a deserved success during its run in London, is being published in a few days' time by......

Shorter Notices

PROFESSOR BICKERSTETH suggests that Lear has more meaning for us than for an age which knew not Himmler, Belsen and Nuremberg. He analyses with subtle erudition the total effect......