21 DECEMBER 1956, page 26

The Classics

PENGUIN Translations have fired another salvo on Greek drama. Mr. Vellacott's The Oresteian Trilogy (Penguin. 2s. 6d.), taken as a test of the quality of the plays, would for-......

Dryden Re-edited

THREE editors and five associate editors have combined to produce a new edition of Dryden's poems and plays, to be completed in an unspecified number of volumes. In The Works of......

American Parties

NomiNo puzzles the British spectator of the American political scene more than the party system, so irrational, complicated, slow-mov - ing, decentralised,, in short un-British......

Old Ireland And New

IN 1941 Dr. Halliday Sutherland heard that his book the Laws of Life, which he had written years before and which in 1936 had received the permissu superiorum from the......