20 DECEMBER 1957, page 24

Shot In The Arm

The Way of the World. By 'Peter Simple.' (The Daily Telegraph, 5s.) THE Daily Telegraph, both before and after it swallowed the Morning Post, enjoyed for many years the......

The Riddle Of A Sphinx

The Fine and the Wicked: The Life and Times of Ouida. By Monica Stirling. (Gollancz, 21s.) LITERARY judgment is never so much at a loss as when confronted by extravagance of......

Civilised Guide

IT is now nearly eighty years since Marcellino de Sautuola's little daughter discovered the great polychrome paintings at Altamira and so dis- covered Upper Palaeolithic cave......