21 MAY 1954, page 24

Studies In Violence

THESE two books have little in common except the last word of their titles, but since the first is a factual record and the second an imagin- ative diagnosis they complement......

New Novels

The Adventures of Augie March is a very long book, which could be taken as a cue for prattling about epic and breadth of scope and all-inclusive vision of life, but in fact what......