28 JUNE 1957, page 27

Romantic Tough's Tongue

Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo. Edited by Hyman E. Goldin, Frank O'Leary, Morris Lipsius. (Constable, 36s.) I ONCE listened to an interminable argument between two......

New Novels

Grdgoire. (Cassell, 15s.) I DON'T think that Ferry to Hongkong is exactly a resonant book; I don't think its theme would haunt one's thoughts or its characters linger much in......