30 JULY 1948, page 20

New Light On Racine ?

A New View of the Plays of Racine. By Vera Orgel. (Macmillan. 16s.) DR. ORGEL begins her bock on Racine with a number of magisterial statements that whet one's appetite for what......

Cricket

IF Holmes had not been quite such an intellectual snob and Watson had not been quite such an ass we should undoubtedly know the solution to one of cricket's most tantalising......

Evolution And The Group

AT eighty the Nestor of British anatomists expounds with his accus- tomed lucidity and grace what he terms the " group theory " of evolution. It restates in simple terms the......