6 JANUARY 1956, page 27

Green Fingers For The Amateur

MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN. By V. Sackville-West. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) IN Japan gardening qualifies as a religion, with its own mystique, and during the Left Book Club Thirties it......

Christina Rossetti

IT would be rash to expect any considerable revival of interest in Christina Rossetti, for her delicate, sensitive poetry is too limited in its range. But there is no doubt that......

Humor

THE WORLD AND THE FLESH AND H. ALLEN SMITH. Edited by , H. Bergen Evans. (Arthur Barker, 16s.) AMERICAN pomposity, pretentiousness and like humbug differ somewhat from the......