13 OCTOBER 1950, page 12

Fiction The Helena Of Mr. Evelyn Waugh's New Novel Is

Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great and the discoverer of the True Cross. The novel, presented as "a legend," is light and compressed, entertains various nicely......

Miss Ursula Graham Bower, Arriving At Manipur Road...

1937, aged twenty-two and on her first visit to India, drove up the spectacularly lovely motor-road that runs over the mountains from the Brahmaputra Valley to Manipur State and......

Other New Books. Shooting An Elephant, And Other Essays. By

George Orwell. (Secker and Warburg. ros.) James Feniznore Cooper. By James Crossman. Herman Melville By Newton Arvin. (American Men of Letters Series. Methuen. 15s. each) A......