5 AUGUST 1955, page 23

Huysmans

THE LIFE OF J.-K. HUYSMANS. By Robert Baldick. (O.U.P., 42s.) THERE are signs of a revival of interest both in France and this country in the French novelists of the late......

The Divided City

CITY DIVIDED: BERLIN, 1955. By Ewan Butler. (Sidgwick and Jackson, 16s.) Do you remember how American war-correspondents, cabling from the Savoy, strained their superlatives to......