16 APRIL 1954, page 28

A Novel Russian

Turgenev: A Life. By David Magarshack. (Faber. 25s.) It was, in many ways, an eventful enough life, though no man of irhagination bore more passively the extremes of emotional......

New Novels

THE four novels under review have so many threads in common that they might form a tapestry. A prominent character in the first Is a doctor with a weak heart, and its heroine......