... Mrs. Beeton and Ilcr Husband Champion Road Paper Orchid Elizabeth Bewen's TOWERING misconceptions on the subject of Mrs. Beeton have, for years now, waited to be cleared up. A Sybilline figure in bombazine, age round the fifty-mark, casting eggs by the dozen into the mixing-bowl, pound ing poundable substances with remorseless fury, daring the bride to err, the cook to falter, or the hostess ...

... The Glass Menagerie Haym arket) Anthony Cook man with Tom Titt REMEMBERING Mama has be come a national pastime in America. She is an or dinary woman, absurd in some ways but devoted, not always easy to live with but not to be men tioned in after years without a catch in the throat. It is a theme which, in Bacon's phrase, should come home to the business and bosoms of men everywhere, but for ...

... Elizabeth Bcwetis MR. R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW'S auto biography, 46 Not Out (Hollis and Carter; 10s. 6d.), is the sort of thing which, he says, should be done in the flower of life, before age has brought either the cynicism which smiles so irritatingly on all human endeavour or the complacency which sits back and awaits the opening of the golden gates. True. May one add, there are two ...

... (bfr Sit Down a Minute, Adrian Comedy Anthony Cookman with THIS is not a bad example of the genteel farce now much in fashion. It is as clean as a whistle, with as few notes. Plautus and Shakespeare, those shameless revellers in the fun of mistaken identity and stage hullaballoo, might have wondered what it was all about. Comic the mistakes, no doubt, but how lightly comic the penalties ...

... The Borgia Testament 14 The Wisdom of Dr. Johnson 44 Portrait of a House 44 Devil's Reckoning: Elizabeth Botven s NIGEL BALCHIN is, as a novelist, admirable-- not least admirable for his way of being for ever upon the move. Reputation came to him early, but he has not been content to take out a patent on, simply, one kind of success: he continues to experiment, to break new ground. He came out ...

... QAr Tfiju Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt Crime Passionnel Gar rick) M. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE enjoys a con tinuing vogue in Paris as the exponent in drama and fiction of the newish philosophy called Existentialism. What that may be only a philosopher can explain. The unphilosophic may arrive covered with blood and sweat and tears at some sort of definition (as, for instance, that there are no values ...

... Elizabeth Bewen s Joy and Josephine Hetfy Dorval Mr. Gay's London MONICA DICKENS hinges her new novel, Joy and Josephine (Michael Joseph; ios. 6 d.), on an endlessly promising situation-- infants exchanged at birth-- or rather, in this case, earliest infancy, at an age when only by the maternal eye is one baby to be known from another. In a room in a children's home in the West of England, ...