19 NOVEMBER 1948, page 24

A Wet Knight

The Saracen's Head. By Osbert Lancaster. (John Murray. 8s. 6d.) MR. LANCASTER is such a well-known humorist that whatever he writes or draws is sure to attract attention. His......

Hobbie

Friend H.: John Cam Hobhouse. By Michael Joyce. (Murray. yPay 1 21s.) PUTRAGEOUS black and implausible white are synthetically com- pounded in the best of biographies, and we......

Maugham Into Sherriff

Quartet consists of four of Mr. Somerset Maugham's short stories, The Facts of Life, The Alien Corn, The Kite and The Colonel's Lady, plus their adaptation into screen plays by......