... 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 ...

... 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. ...