13 APRIL 1956, page 34

New Novels

NOWHERE during the past half-century can more literary nonse n t , s ! have been deposited than in receptacles marked The Futur e ,., 0 the Novel.' Event has invariably......

Silver Bullets

THE BLACK PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES. By Shirley Ann Grau. (Heinemann, 12s. 6d.) THE joyous reviews of The Black Prince in America last year encouraged one to expect a......

Appalling Mysteries

MAN IN THE BEGINNING. By William Howells. (Bell, 18s. 6d.) W. W. HoWELLS is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and editor of the American Journal of......

Deb

VICTORIAN VINAIGRETTE. By Ursula Bloom. (Hutchinson, 165.) MEMORIES. By Ethel Barrymore. (Hulton Press, 21s.) URSULA BLOOM is a practised confectioner of books, and, fashioning......