17 NOVEMBER 1950, page 28

Fiction

Insurrection. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Gollancz. 95. 6d.) AFTER an interval of ten years another novel from Mr. Ralph Bates, and very welcome it is.. Childhood in a Wiltshire......

Waters Of Silence. By Thomas Merton. (hollis And Carter....

A CERTAIN disquieting anomaly pervades this otherwise excellent account of the Cistercian Order. Authorship directs attention to the performer and is s'ot really compatible with......

Beddoes Is A Poet Whose Life And Work Have Never

been portrayed in organic relation ; - nor does Mr. Donner in his long introduction to this Muses Library selection succeed in making good the lack. Mr. Donner is not content to......

Shorter Notices

James Joyce's Dublin. By Patricia Hutchins. (Grey Walls Press. Ifs.) THIS is a first-clastpicture-book with a very intelligent. text. The idea of trying to recapture as much as......