5 NOVEMBER 1954, page 60

A Literary Review

The New Partisan Reader. Edited by William Phillips and Philip P .ahY. (Andre Deutsch. 30s.) THIS is a significant book. The selection of seventy-odd contribution' covers almost......

Whitehead's Table Talk

Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead. By Lucien Price. (Mit ir A Reinhardt. 25s.) LUCIEN PRICE 15 an American journalist who had the idea of recording Professor Whitehead's......

Owing To The Very Large Entry For The Spectator's Second

Review competition (Lord M. by David Cecil), it will not be possible to announce the result until November 19, when the winning entry will be printed.......

. New Novels The Flower Girls. By Clemence Dane. (michael

Joseph. 21s.) IN one way at least, human beings resemble photographic plates. Expose us to too much light, and our world is darkened. Give us too little, or light of the wrong......