... THIS has been a week of novels, with no books of that type known to booksellers as general, or even, less amiably, miscellaneous. But the novels themselves have been interesting enough and, in one case, even stimulating. William Medium (Bodley Head. ios. 6d.) is a story told at length and discursively, in the pattern of the nineteenth-century writer, by Mr. Edward Hyams, who has chosen as ...

... Vigrhimare Abbey and Crotchet Castle Tempestuous Pettleoat The Government Inspector Music Tells All Elizabeth Havens THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK'S two short novels Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, written in 1818 and 1831, reappear now in one volume, in the pleasing format of Messrs. Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, at 6s. J. B. Priestley, a long-standing Peacock-lover, and author of the ...

... (bfc Carissima Palace Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt IN the light musical theatre we are, according to revue writers, the friends of every country but our own. A joke must have a foreign trade mark before we are amused by it; no Robinson or Brown can hope to be recognized by us as a musician; and on our seemingly endless enthusiasm for Oklahoma! and Annie, Get Your Gun the American export drive ...

... BERNARD MILES SURVEYS THE BRITISH THEATRE An Appeal for Cheaper Seats and Less Commercialism Bernard Miles has won a foremost place in British films, and in Great Expectations and Fame is the Spur he revealed himself to tens of thousands as a first-class character actor. Despite these screen successes, however, Mr. Miles is really a man of the theatre; we must make no mistake about that. ...