The Confused Knight
The Life of Sir John Eliot, 1592-1632. By Harold Hulme. (Allen and Unwin, 35s.) IN 1865 John Forster published what has long been the standard biography of Sir John Eliot.......
Going Up
VETERAN members of the British Interplanetary Society like this reviewer can hardly avoid a cer- tain smugness at the almost universal acceptance nowadays of ideas which even......
Warped Good Faith
Going Home. By Doris Lessing. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) Miss LESSING is a novelist of sufficient quality for those who react to her at all to want. to read all her books. I do not......
New Novels
The Thing Desired. By Lalage Pulvertaft. (Secker and Warburg, 16s.) Tower in the West. By Frank Norris. (Gollancz, 15s.) The Short Reign of Pippin IV. By John Steinbeck.......