Golden 'boy
IN many ways, the No seems to be treated in Japan today as a pseudo-art, like flower arrange- ment and the tea ceremony its purposeful remoteness, fossilisation, exclusiveness,......
Bullying Bab
Gilbert: His Life and Strife. By Hesketh Pear- son. (Methuen, 25s.) IT is not a pretty picture that Hesketh Pearson draws of Sir William Gilbert, who belonged to Sullivan as......
Splendid Lunacy
THE New Yorker's is a style that can quickly become a bore when used for its own sake. But in the work of S. J. Perelman it glitters for all it's worth, and that can be quite a......
New Novels
THERE is an ill-defined category, somewhere be- tween the straightforward psychological novel and the story of crime, detection and horror, to which Nina Bawden's new book,......
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