Irrecoverably Dark
IN Joshua Whatmough's Language : A Modern Synthesis (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) learned term hotly pursues learned term and all too often there is no clear indication of the way......
Haydn De Luxe
AT a first glance at The Symphonies.of 1 01( 1 Haydn, by H. C. Robbins Landon (Univ els$ ' Edition and Rockliff, £6), the content of splendid and necessary book seems almost i t......
The Church In Greece
GREEK archbishops from time to time hit the headlines in our newspapers—because of their political, not their ecclesiastical, activities, The constitution and condition of the......
New Novels
NEVER am I so thankful to be living in the twentieth century, even under an atomic cloud, than when I read the gorier sorts of historical fiction. Not that the gore in Maurice......
Unified Vision
DOROTHY WELLESLEY, without trying to out- sing or outrun anyone, has maintained an individual tone and a steady pace, and is much nearer the goal than many who measure their......
Reflections
A Gallery of Mirrors, by Richard Heron Ward (Gollancz, 16s.), is a rare book. Mr. Ward has drawn a series of portraits, in part no doubt touched up with the pencil of his......
Still Waiting
IT would have been easier to congratulate I bt publishers on the speed with which 01 1 brought out the English text of San ug Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Faber, 9c. 641 if in......
Frustrate Poetry , 6 Tins First English Translation Of One
of SO,' Beckett's French novels. seems to be v SI „ adequately done; indeed it should b 0.1 the author has himself collaborate d M Patrick Bowles, the translator. M0110)., A )......
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