Half Play
HENRY TUBE The Blind Beauty Boris Pasternak translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (Collins! Harvill 25s) A novelist takes his reader by the hand and leads him into a large......
Science Friction
J. 0. URMSON The thesis of the unity of science, that all the laws and, hence, all the concepts of all other sciences can be reduced to those of physics, was formulated forty......
Village Gossip
GEORGE EWART EVANS Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village Ronald Blythe (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press 35s) This book has a wealth of wonderful material taken directly from......
Gone Native
MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The Build Up William Carlos Williams (Mac- Gibbon and Kee 42s) The Build Up is the concluding volume of Williams's trilogy, the first two books of which are......