20 JULY 1956, page 24

That New Town Remains Partly To Console Us, But There

are outer flanges of it, such as George's Square, which are outside the New Town proper; but which are under threat of destruction from (of all quarters) the University. Mr.......

New Novels

AT the beginning of his latest novel, The Secret River (Seeker and Warburg, I6s.), Mr. C. H. B. Kitchen reverts to the period of his first, Streamers Waving (1925). That early......

The Atlantic Sea-war

WALKER, R.N. By T. Robertson. (Evans, 16s.) BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE. By Dudley Pope. (Kimber, 18s.) IN The Golden Horseshoe Mr. Terence Robertson wrote the biography of Otto......

Painful Pilgrimage

PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHROUD. By Group Captain G. L. Cheshire, VC, DSO, DFC. (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) THIS is the story of a very ill little girl who conceived the idea that she would......