2 AUGUST 1968, page 22

Shorter Notices

Mac Harold Pinter (Pendragon Press 30s). Brief but powerful tribute to Anew McMaster, last of the great actor-managers, an Othello who never left out the fit and who silenced......

North Vietnam: A Documentary John Gerassi With A Foreword By

Conor Cruise O'Brien (Allen and Unwin 45s). Mr Gerassi went to North Vietnam in 1966, for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation,......

Past Masters

CHARLES REID Portrait of Elgar Michael Kennedy (ouP 50s) A Future for English Music and Other Lec- tures Edward Elgar edited by Percy M. Young (Dennis Dobson 80s) Richard......

The Buildings Of England : Worcestershire Nikolaus...

Year by year Pevsner's astonishing survey grows: here is the thirty-fifth volume, providing, like its pre- decessors, voluminous detail fitted into a fine sweeping view of......

The Bootleggers Kenneth Allsop (hutchinson 45s). This Is...

impression of Mr Allsop's racy account of Chicago in its hoodlum heyday —starring such infamous hoods as Capone, Johnny Torrio, Dion O'Banion, the Gennas plus full supporting......

Robert Kennedy Margaret Laing (macdonald 42s). `he Was A...

man, and he could be a sharp man. He cared about caring, often angrily.' In this necrophilous book, Miss Laing records his famous generosity, his im- petuousness, occasions of......