21 AUGUST 1953, page 21

Underwater Hunting. By Dr. Gilbert Doukan. (allen And...

TACKLE gets finer but fishermen are un- doubtedly becoming more coarse. Tench are taken with a nylon filament ; trout, according to an awful rumour, are not averse to a March......

Australian Passport. ,by Colin Wills. (dennis Dobson....

THE English are, on the whole, shamefully uninformed about Australia ; they have heard of the " bush," they probably know that Sydney has a beautiful harbour, but they wrongly......

Tim Story Of Arctic Endurance That Mr. Scott Gives Here

is over twenty years old. Although life in the northern snow deserts may seem to be timeless and dateless, in point of fact such a degree of isolation need never occur again,......

Shorter Notices

English Radicalism, 1886-1914. By S. Maccoby. (Allen and Unwin. 42s.) THERE is a great gap in British historical writing which I had hoped this book might fill. "Radicalism" was......

Botteghe Oscure Xl (rome, 1953. 10s. 6d.)

THIS is not the best issue of a review which has rightly achieved a high international reputation. It contains too much writing which is merely esoteric and too purpose- fully......