23 DECEMBER 1960, page 17

Fair Guesses

Alexander Blok, By Sir Cecil Kisch. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) SIR CECIL KISCH has undertaken to trace the development of Alexander Blok's poetry by relating it......

Themes And Targets

A pproach to Hamlet. By L. C. Knights. (Chatto and Windus, 12s. 6d.) "?sPeare's Rival. By Robert Gittings. ( Heinemann, 18s.) ^ESPEARE, like death, is approached in a Mul titude......

Grammar Schools In A Barbarian Age, When Teenagers Enjoy A

sub- culture inaccessible to an older generation, grammar schools- are still a civilising influence. With some of the independent schools, they are `virtually alone in......

Barbarians

THE Scottish fifth column in English medicine is now a legend. For many years the South has received transfusions of talent from the Scottish medical schools and the Hunter......