26 JULY 1957, page 23

Travelling Companion

Silk Hats and No Breakfast. By Honor Tracy. (Methuen, 15s.) Pottering about the middle of Spain on buses and local trains is hardly a recommendable way of getting about, but you......

America Vaporising

THIS enormous book (675 pages, of which two' fifths are footnotes) is also an unusually deplor - able book, for reasons which are worth dwelling upon briefly, as they illustrate......

White Elephants

e Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Mono- i n t) gue in Modern Literary Tradition. By R obert Langbaum. (Chatto and Windus, 21s . ) 1 "E is a certain analogy between fashions......