12 JUNE 1953, page 22

Life In Nelson's Navy

ROBERT HAY was born of poor parents at Kirkintilloch in Dum- barton in the year of the French Revolution. During the next ten years his father changed house and trade several......

Costume Drawings

MR. GORSLINE is an American painter and illustrator, and the most valuable part of his rather ambitiously named book is undoubtedlY the portion devoted to American costume......

A New History Of Art

Ihe THE appearance of the first volume of the Pelican History of issued by Penguin Books and edited by the Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge, is a landmark in the history of......

In Next Week's " Spectator " Allan Wade Will Review

" Henry James : The Untried Years, 1843-1870, " by Leon Edel ; the Bishop of Southwell " Well Remembered " by Claude Martin Blag- den ; and C. E. Vulliamy " The Chronicle of......