... tainment. The Puzzle Corner item, which once used to drag all over the programme, has been speeded up by Ronnie Waldman. The Terry-Thomas show, How Do You View is not our cup of tea. Even the title makes us squirm. But we try to be broad- minded enough ...

... 10s. 6 d.) Imaginary biography of an inventor's daughter who views life as a fight Emma Conquest versus the world. I 'm frankly on the world's side. THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE. By Giovanni Verga. (W eidenfeld and Nicolson 10s. 6 d.) A good translation ...

... Two Solo Flights I'J. 9 ITho.V THE records of World War Two have no wilder nor stranger story to tell than that of Sir Basil Embry's battle to outwit captivity in the early summer of 1940. It is set out in Wingless Victory (Odhams, 9s. 6d.) by Anthony ...

... Walt Whitman, and he tells us of Francis Bacon There is chill in the essayist too. It runs up the arms, it leaves one a little sick and shaken. Perhaps nowhere in literature do we more clearly see a mind at work and it frightens us. Mr. Morley packs his sentences ...

... may not, with its horrific subject, be as popular, but it does mark an advance in his style and in his effectively economical use of words. He still has his little foible of overworking one chosen word. The scene is a Catholic mission in Kashmir soon after ...