21 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 26

Vestigial Organ

SOME time ago members of the BBC's television Brains Trust, who should have known better, tried to make out that Freud was a great religious thinker. Dr. Philp's study should......

From Catfish To Caiman

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FISHES. By Maurice Constantin-Weyer. (Richard Bell, 15s.) THESE two books approach the animal kingdom from very different angles, M. Constantin-Weyer......

New Novels

Two quite formidably clever women novelists this week take— Penelope Mortimer with The Bright Prison (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) and Brigid Brophy with The King of a Rainy......