4 JULY 1958, Page 45

The Whipping Boys. By Guy Cullingford. The Whipping Boys. By

Guy Cullingford.

ammond, 10s. 6d.) Adolescent hooligans in ,onglish provincial town are suspected of elderly baby-sitters's death from fright. The youth-club backchat doesn't ring quite true, and it's not clear Vvilether the author is advocating mdre stick or Illore sense, in the treatment of delinquency. All the same, a pretty plausible slice of seedy life, and Very readable.