28 SEPTEMBER 1951, page 24

Vulgar Eloquence

it Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles. Edited IT is just a little over a hundred years since John Russell Bartlett published his Dictionary of Americanisms : A......

Totalitarian Hollywood

Hollywood, The Dream Factory. By Hortense Powdermaker. (Seeker and Warburg. 18s.) DR. HORTENSE POWDERMAKER, who has written a book on the Stone Age culture of the Melanesians......