Movie Time
The Contemporary Cinema. By Penelope Houston. (Penguin Books, 5s.), GOOD critics of the movies like having them both ways. They think movies should burn at both ends before the......
Plus Ca Change
WHEN the first edition of this book appeared in 1953 it at once took its place as a standard work. But the difficulty which students of Soviet affairs have to face is that the......
Crime And Punishment
The Trial of Marie Besnard. BY Marie Besnard. Translated by Denise Folliot. With a preface by Sybille Bedford. (Heinemann, 25s.) A policeman's job can't be very difficult to......
Anchors Aweigh
The Two-Ocean War. A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. By Samuel Eliot Morison. (0.U.P., 50s.) Mosr people's reaction to the first inaccurate news......