4 APRIL 1952, page 48

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......

New Books

As in other years the spring's book-list contains much biographical material, most of it concerned with the present or immediate past. Biographies are often written before the......