20 MARCH 1959, page 27

Muscular Christian

The Unkind Light. By Charles Elliott. (Hamish Hamilton, I 3s. 6d.) THE latest and abridged edition of the famous CI-Hier CA Tale of the Christ') is timed to coin- more or less,......

Dark Virtue

The Trial of Peter Manuel. By John Gray Wilson. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) ON January 2, 1956, a girl called Anne Kneilands was battered to death with a piece of iron near the......