5 JUNE 1964, page 24

Into The Past

Captain Cook and the South Pacific. By Oliver Alexander the Great. By Charles Mercer. (Cassell, 21s.) WALKING round Richard Buckle's lavish Shake- speare exhibition at......

Prize Winners

Time of Trial by Hester Burton (O.U.P., 15s.) has been awarded the Library Association's Carnegie Medal for 1963: this medal is given each year to an outstanding book for......

Children's Books

Sound Beginnings By ELAINE MOSS tsrraustAsm for English,' wrote Guy Boas, `can neither be taught nor learnt, it can only be caught, like measles.' A child is prone to this......