28 FEBRUARY 1958, page 25

New Fiction

THE reviewer of novels is always, and sometimes rather desperately, on the look-out for anything which might be called a 'trend'; it was, for example, a purely journalistic......

Mafeking At Romano's

ARNOLD BENNETT, writing in his Journals, put down one day: Romano's. This restaurant is quite different at lunch time from dinner. Theatrical people entering, mutually known, a......