21 OCTOBER 1955, page 25

Amphibious Jeep

HALF-SAFE. By Ben Carlin. (Andre Deutsch, 16s.) BEN CARLIN is an Australian and he writes in the way tha t Australians speak—out of the back of the mouth, without muc h emphasis......

The Everlasting Crisis

I N the free society there is always a crisis in education. The Communists or the theocrats may know, with a shining, inner certainty, just 'why' and 'how' to educate. But we......

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WHEN the quality of novels is poor, we console ourselves with facts. The plotless novel stands or falls on its intrinsic merits; if it has none, we wonder why it was written at......