15 MAY 1959, page 27

Alabama, Up We Come

ON December I, 1955, a bus-driver in Mont- gomery. Alabama. tried to make Rosa Parks give up her place to a white man. She sat tight. And round this handsome, cheerful.......

Dying Gods

MARIA BROWNE, Who, her publisher says, is verY young indeed, has chosen the Rome of Nero for her first novel and peopled it with young men and women recognisably taken straight......