24 OCTOBER 1931, page 36

A Whiff Of Sanity

To most English people, Dostoevsky stands, as the symbol of the " Russian novelists," for all that is insane, lustful, incoherent, and morbid in fiction. Most critics writing......

Women, Motors And Maleficence

Women and Crime. By Cecil Bishop. (Chatto and Windus. . 10s. 6d.) -- . TIIE lay mind has always a sneaking appreciation of the adage that " there is nothing so false as facts......

The Rhyming Farmer

Thomas Tusser. Edited by Dorothy Hartley. (" Country Life." 21s.) THOMAS TOSSER has always been reckoned an attractive figure, though his name is now better known than his......