13 JULY 1956, page 26

New Novels

How drab can life become? The life of an elementary school teacher in a slum near Manchester might be expected to plumb the depth of drabness pretty thoroughly; and Dorothy......

Still A-roving

THE author of this book and myself happen to belong to the same London club, and when I asked the hall-porter the other day if he had seen him lately, he replied briefly : 'No,......