22 MARCH 1957, page 24

Those Were The Days

IT would be difficult—indeed, it would be almost impossible—to recognise in Maurice Wiggin the author of In Spite of the Price of Hay (Phoenix House, 16s.), a meandering,......

Dior Adore

THE raison d'etre of a grand couturier is, I take it, to clothe his clients suitably and to enhance their beauty in doing so. After reading this remarkable book, however, I find......

The Force Of Law

HERE again, with Much in Evidence (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.), and an eye cocked skilfully on such potential future patrons as the Boulting Brothers, comes Mr. Henry Cecil with a......

New Novels

There is a Happy Land. By Keith Waterhouse. (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) WITH good reason, though not perhaps with perfect propriety, it might be said of some novels that they are......

Confession

I r is not so many years ago since the practice of pri- vate confession in the. Church of Englund would have been regarded as the mark of an extreme Anglo- Catholic, not to say......