4 APRIL 1952, page 46

Fiction

A Step to Silence. By P. H. Newby. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) A Place to Live. By George Buchanan. (Faber. 10s. 6d.) Now Barabbas, one might say, was a cipher. He is described variously......

Verse Translations

Poems of Francois Villon. Translated to the original verse-forms by Norman Cameron. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) AT a moment when the translation of verse into prose—or alter- natively into......

Monteverdi Wrapped Up

" THE superb details of workmanship in the compositions of 1610 have been fined down to a more schematic ` blanc-et-noir ' style of buoyant tutti—and concertante ' solo......