22 NOVEMBER 1957, page 64

Opened Before Christmas Day

Horses in Fact and Fiction. Compiled by Ake Runnquist. (Cape, 35s.) The Great Horse Omnibus. Edited by Thurston Macauley. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) English Love Poems.......

Knife, Fork And Gun

As far as my feet will carry me. By J. M. Bauer. (Andre Deutsch, 15s.) As the peace goes on, publishers seem to become more and more convinced that what makes a war best-seller......

The Publishers Of Dylan Thomas : Letters To Vernon Watkins,

which was reviewed in last week's issue by John Davenport, are J. M. Dent and Sons with Faber and Faber.......

Let-down A Scholarly

The Early Christian Church. By Philip Carring- ton. (C.U.P., two volumes, 52s. 6d. each.) THE Archbishop of Quebec's lengthy (over 1,000 pages in all), learned, handsomely......