25 DECEMBER 1953, page 20

It's A Crime

A Pocketful of Rye. By Agatha Christie. (Collins. 10s. 6d.) The Passionate Victims. By Lange Lewis. (Bodley Head. 9s. 6d.) Crows Can't Count... By A. A. Fair. (Heinemann. 9s.......

Two Quiet\ Lives

To the puzzled intellectuals of the twentieth century, the "reflective doer" appears as the apostle of human perfection; under each of Koestler's "thoughtful corporals" there......