28 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 23

Next week's "Spectator" will be an enlarged number containing reviews

of a further selection of Christmas books. Amalie' Williams- Ellis, Marghanita Laski and Honor Croome will consider books for children in three different age-groups; Elizabeth Bowen and Sir Gerald Kelly, P.R.A., will review biographies of Arnold Bennett and the Scottish portrait-painter Allan Ramsay respectively; and Stephen Spender will discuss the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas.