20 MAY 1955, page 27

Books

Pudd'nhead Wilson . BY JOHN WAIN T HIS book* is an unhappy mixture of genres; as a fable, it has wit, structure, and a fine irony; but it is offered— the technique specifically......

Sic Semper Tyrannis

THE late Matthew Arnold was jerked out of his Balliol superiority by the news that the President of the United States had been assassinated by an actor who had enough culture to......

Queen And Minister

MR. SECRETARY CECIL AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. By Conyers Read. ONE of the paradoxes of Tudor history is that the man who must have written and received more documents than a dozen of......