... 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 ...

... THE NAVY THROUGH THE AGES An Erudite Survey of Our Senior Service Britain's sea power laid the foundations of her Empire and it has saved Britain from every tyrant who has threatened the island from the days of Philip of Spain to those of Adolf Hitler; but the vast territorial gains of the acquisitive past, and the great battles which ensured our survival, only engage incidentally the ...

... AS a playwright, Thornton Wilder may be too esoteric for all tastes, but as a novelist he has a position of real dis tinction both here and in his own America. The Ides of March (Long mans. 9S. 6d.) is constructed in an experimental form, and not a particularly easy one, being mainly built up from letters supposed to have been written by Julius Caesar, by Cleopatra, by Caesar's wife, and by ...

... 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, ...