27 MARCH 1959, page 26

Russian Rocketry Soviet Writings On Earth Satellites And...

(MacGibbon and Kee, 18s.) Two years ago we had a spate of books on rocketry (all American) which ended with tenta- tive proposals for earth satellites. Now come two on earth......

Still Still Waters

The Secret Capture. By Captain S. W. Roskill, RN. (Collins, 16s.) Leyte. By Rear-Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison. (0.U.P., 45s.) SOMETIMES the Navy carries its passion for silence......

Fleur Du Mal

EDMOND DE GONCOURT cried Wolfenden in 1877. Elisa, soundly translated here by Margaret Cros- land, describes the state of organised prostitution in France and the state of the......