6 JANUARY 1950, page 32

Fiction

THE novels of Mr. Claude Houghton have all shown him to be imaginatively aware of a deep level of experience, a reality under- lying or overshadowing the everyday world. To him......

Shorter Notices

Piccadilly Pageant. By Simon Dewes. (Rich & Cowan. I6s.) IN spite of a quite shocking collection of misprints, mostly mis- spellings of familiar proper names, and other signs of......

A Critic And Three Cultures From A Book Of Criticism

we can often learn nearly as much about the critic as about his particular themes. Each man draws his deductions in accordance with a certain bias of mind. Even his choice of......