31 AUGUST 1951, page 19

Victorian London

THIS is the latest of the three volumes in which Mr. Quennell has revived Mayhew's classic, London Labour and the London Poor, for a new generation of readers. It was an......

John Bunyan " Teen Read My Fancies, They Will Stick

like Burrs," wrote Bunyan in his Apology for Pilgrim's Progress. It would seem that in the last years his allegory has lost some of its powers of sticking in the mind. Children......

The Prehistory Of Britain

THE many readers of Mrs. Hawkes's A Land, the predecessor to her preSent book, must be on their guard against an unwarrantable sense of disappointment at not finding herein the......