20 DECEMBER 1968, page 20

Much Virtue In If Arts

PENELOPE HOUSTON Eleven years ago (the year after Suez and Hungary) Lindsay Anderson was writing about England: 'Coming back to Britain is, in many respects, like going back to......

Grimble Clement Freud (collins Los 6d). Any- One...

coping with the unrelia- bility, the inscrutable sense of humour and the tiresome vagueness of the adult world will recognise in the imperturbable Grimble a true hero of our own......

World Theatre:. An Illustrated History Bamber Gascoigne...

Making a scene GEORGE ROWELL World Theatre:. An Illustrated History Bamber Gascoigne (Ebury Press 70s) A Concise History of the Theatre Phyllis Hart- noll (Thames and Hudson......

Shorter Notices

The Bible Story Philip Turner illustrated by Brian Wildsmith (our 35s). A kind of Lamb's tales from the Bible, in which Mr Turner's admirably clear and orderly text is accom-......