25 APRIL 1952, page 26

New Novels

GENIUS is notoriously difficult to write about, because it is unpre- dictable. Of the laws by which it works we know only that they are different from those which govern talent.......

Entertainment Value

AN elderly master used to start the races in the swimming-bath at my old school with a hasty preliminary warning that revealed itself— after one had detached the garbled......

The Edge Of Wales

The Southern Marches. By H. J. Massingham. (Hale. 21s.) Tills is a brilliant and vigorous book, loaded with knowledge and embellished with literary allusion. And, in view of the......