26 APRIL 1957, page 22

New Novels

I HAVE missed John Hearne's two previous novels, but after reading The Faces of Love I shall cer- tainly try to get hold of them. His characters are strikingly endowed with the......

Andalusia

" South from Granada. By Gerald 'Brenan: (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) RETIREMENT to a remoter part of the world than one, by nature or education, belongs to involves psychological as......

The Uses Of Literacy

Revolt on the Nile. By Colonel Anwar El Sadat, with a Foreword by President Nasser. Trans- lated by Thomas Graham. (Wingate, 12s. 6d.) THIS is a shortened translation, with no......