29 MAY 1959, page 37

The Meaning Of Bandits

DR. RUDE' has lately shown how much a sensitive researcher can discover about city mobs in his- tory. But there are other forms of primitive politi- cal activity about which......

Creole Mumbo

New Orleans Sketches. By William Faulkner. (Sidgwick and Jackson, 15s.) HERE is a collection of the bulrushes in which the infant Faulkner was discovered; and most of them, for......