26 DECEMBER 1947, page 20

In The Streets Of Victorian London

The Street Trader's Lot : London 1851. By Henry Mayhew and Stanley Rubinstein. (Sylvan Press. 12s. 6d.) IN a way, in spite of its poignancy and the mass of information it gives,......

Building At Oxford

Oxford Stone. By W. J. Arkell. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) ARC.HITECTS nowadays work mostly in substitute materials, and feel about stone much the same as they feel about vintage......

Fiction

THERE are six contemporary English novelists whose books I always order in advance, because I know that I shall be able to read them again and again. They are Miss Elizabeth......