The Book Of Beer, By Andrew Campbel L ' (dribson, 15s.)...
drinkers write about it : beer drinker s drink. There is no end to books about win e ' by contrast to a dearth of readable or reliabl e books on beer, though beer has been th e......
The Deprived Child And The Community. By
Donald Ford. (Constable, 20s.) MR. FORD has served as Chairman of the LCC Childen's Committee and has had wide experi' ence with children deprived of a normal home life. He......
John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain.
By Donald Creighton. (Macmillan, f2,2s.) THE first volume of Professor Donald Crcigh- ton's life of Sir John Macdonald showed that the Canadian statesman had found an ideal......
Lenin: A Biography. Translated By Violet Dutt. (lawrence...
7s. 6d.) This fantasy-biography is what one has come to expect from the publishers, who have long been doing their best as an advance echelon of Minitrue. I have just noted on......
Anglo-saxon England. By P. H. Blair. (c.u.p., 30s.) It Has
been necessary for a long time that the work of the many Anglo-Saxon scholars in illuminating the history of England between the end of the Roman occupation and the Norman......
New Novels
hUDD SCHULBERG'S Waterfront (The Bodley Head, 15s.) is a sort of diffusion of his script for the film On the Waterfront; a wonder- fully vigorous conjuring of a whole......
'wailful Sonnets' Was Shakespeare's Phrase, No Doubt With...
of Elizabethan love sonnets in mind. True it is, that their mellifluously monotonous hyperboles make up one of the less intriguing corners of English literature. Mr. Lever's......