18 NOVEMBER 1955, page 49

Types And Puppets

THE RAKE'S PROGRESS. By Ronald Searle. (Perpetua, 15s.) THE LOVERS' TRAVELOGUE. By Raymond Peynet. (Perpetua, 7s. 6d.) THERE is a single, lonely fault about the books of Mr.......

The Capel Letters

THE CAPEL LETTERS. Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey. (Jonathan Cape, 18s.) EVEN the most obtuse reader of War and Peace may be expected to close that long novel aware that the......