19 OCTOBER 1956, page 25

The Modern Malaise

CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN MIND. By Leo Gurko. Foreword by Sir Beverley Baxter. (Rider, 18s.) DR. GURKO (Professor' is, we learn, not a title much respected in America) has written......

Hot And Cold

THIS IS OUR WORLD. By Louis Fischer. (Cape, 35s.) Our OF THE GUN. By Denis Warner. (Hutchinson, 18s.) BOTH these books are of the kind best described as first-rate reporting,......

Pussies, Ponies And Peonies

SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape, 16s.) Ma. NICHOLS in the rustic state feels he is 'a compact and co-ordinated member of a civilised society' where passions are......