1 MARCH 1957, page 27

Sacred Cows The Editors Of This Anthology Aim It Against

'The Movement.' They get rather confused, indeed, by using this term of two scarcely overlapping lots of poets—the moribund Empsonians and the Poets in New Lines, an anthology......

New Novels

The Master. By T. H. White. (Cape, I5s.) WHAT goes on inside Rockall? A fascinating hypothesis is supplied this week by T. H. White, in a book which he himself describes as 'a......

In The Know How Difficult It Must Be For Scientists

to compress a description of a whole field into forty or fifty pages for that rather undefinable figure 'the layman'! It is a credit to them that they so often succeed : but......

. Bow Street Man Here Is Somethin G Fresh, Among At

least a dozen non- fiction books, published recently about criminals or the police (Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner, by Henry Goddard : Museum Press, 18s.). There were one or two......

Stage Reference Theatrical Reference Books Are Good As...

they stick to facts, recording what happened and who took part when and where; for good measure it is often desirable that a consensus of critical opinion written at the time be......

Lightning Conductors The Worst Thing About Grand Tour Of...

by Eric and Barbara Whelpton (Robert Hale, 18s.) is its name, which inevitably suggests a comprehensive itinerary. Moreover the su gg estion is reinforced by the unequivocal and......

Indian State Sardar Panikkar Describes Elo Q Uently The...

State and the Citizen, by K. M. Panikkar ; Asia Publishing House, Rs 6-12). 'It is Jenghiz Khan with distance control exercised by a hundred methods. Its picture is that of some......