3 APRIL 1959, page 29

Nostalgic De Normandie

A. J. LIERLING must he the only American war correspondent who trained for D-Day by running every morning through the Park, from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington Palace and back :......

Digs In Tranquillity

Life and Death in the Bronze Age: An Archae- ologist's Field Work. By Sir Cyril Fox. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 45s.) OLD archaeologists never stop writing—and what a good thing......

Solution Of Crossword 1.036 Across. — I Dimple. 4 Octavian.

10 Fnstnet. II Ambling, 12 Oxen. 13 Pam- boyant. 16 Impure. 17 Frailty. 20 Ten- sets. 21 Snivel. 24 Re-entrance 25 Stet. 27 Decocts. 29 Bitumen. 30 Treasure. 31 Lignont. DOWN. —......

Phaidon Trio

Matthias Griinewald, By Joris Karl Huysmans. Raoul Dufy. By Marcel Brion. Edouard Mullet. By John Richardson. (Phaidon Press, 18s, 6d. each.) THE Phaidon Press has launched an......

Spectator Crossword No. 1,038

ACROSS 29 I No doubt slippery elm makes 30 contribution to sports day (6, 4) 6 A blow on the wrist from a story- book detective (4) 1 0 Speaking on behalf of the family .. . (5)......