6 MARCH 1953, page 26

The Significance Of Pascal

M. MESNARD modestly describes his book as " merely an introduc- tion to the serious study of Pascal." It is the sort of introduction which could only have been written by a man......

Don Quixote De In Mancha. By Miguel De Cervantes. A

new translation by Samuel Putnam. (Cassell. 2 vols. 63s.) THE new Don Quixote, which appeared about five years ago in America, is very finely produced and at a rather high......

Fiction

As between whales and elephants, there seems to be no very clear reason why the former should have Moby Dick as their monument in our homes while the elephants are only......