24 FEBRUARY 1950, page 28

* * * A Good Many Readers Of The Spectator

will remember Michael Roberts, schoolmaster, philosopher, Alpinist, husband of Janet Adam Smith, who before his death in 1948, at the age of forty-six, was a fairly frequent......

English Picnics. By Georgina Battiscombe. (harvill Press....

the subject is picnics it is permissible to concoct a pie containing larks. Mrs. Battiscombe has evidentry revelled a little in her venture, but felt her obligations. The......

Shorter Notices

Designers in Britain is a "Biennial Review of Graphic and Industrial Design," and includes work not only by members of the society responsible - for the compilation, but also......

I Heard Mr. Arthur Koestler, At A Conference Of Writers

held in London during the wa,r, make a speech which stood out from all the rest by its sincerity, its imaginative energy and its realism. These qualities, manifest in everything......