20 MARCH 1953, page 26

Fiction

HAVE the market researchers ever attempted a breakdown of the circulation—the library-borrowing readership, that is—of our popular or critically esteemed novelists ? Somebody at......

Very Small Talk We Are Told By Her Publishers, Among

other very interesting and relevant pieces of information, that Miss G. B. Stern lives "partly . near the house where Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows." This, no......

Donne And Milton

DONNE is one of the few poets we can enjoy reading with a com- mentary. The compression of his thought challenges the pursuit of his digressive images. The grating of the rhythm......

The Spectator Thin Paper Edition Can Be Forwarded By Ail

to any address in the world. SUBSCRIPTION RATES :- U.S.A. and Canada (Air Mail) £4 15s. Od. per annum. S. Africa (Air Express) £4 Os. Od. per annum. Rates to other parts of the......