... by Elizabeth Bowen ROSE MACAULAY'S latest (and possibly greatest) novel is The Towers Of Trebizond (Collins, 13s. 6d.). It is also her first since The World My Wilderness, published in 1950. Miss Macaulay is one of the few writers of whom it may be said, she adorns our century, bringing to it high qualities-- style, wit, laughter and learning-- which on the whole we connect with happier times. ...

... Korean battlefront. Conceivably, too much ground is covered-- that is, for one book. For also embedded in Tony Chisholm's narrative are extracts from the Wishart-Pitcairn history, with the ins-and-outs of that feud of Jacobite days: an obsession with the late Mungo Wishart. Time and again the exciting, adventurous parts of The Dark Of Summer honourably remind one of John Buchan. Few Buchan ...

... Maestro of Conductors A Portrait of Toscanini Headhunters at War; a Life of Adventure; Impressions of Indo-China an American Cause Celebre New Novels and Thrillers -By VERNON FANE A SPLENDID and final answer to anyone of the old regime who inveighs against the introduc tion of radio into so many millions of homes might be the one word: Toscanini. For without radio and without the fact that ...

... Adventure at Eighty -By VERNON FANE Mrs. Patterson's Life in the Mountains Novels by Miss Rose Macaulay ancl Mr. Wyndham Lewis and a Selection of Other Fiction WHEN a lone woman decides to leave her cosy little home in San Francisco and make for the mountains and a remote and rickety log cabin, that is courageous enough, but it is even more so when one finds that she has recently come out of ...

... by ANGELA MILNE SECRET Service Man Lost On Continent; Boy Hunted in Sewers; Library Worker Slays Colleague; Blackmail, Murder Baffle Private Eyes; Great Plague Sweeps Mediaeval Italy. Five of my six books are, as you see, pretty violent affairs generously endowed with grip; but none has interested me more than a mild and quiet first novel called My Darling From the Lion's Mouth (Chatto and ...

... Be Shot for Sixpence,' by Michael Gilbert (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s bd). Philip, an impulsive and unconventional character, walks out on his mistress and into an adventure that starts with an agony- column advertisement from a miss ing friend and lands him in a wild adventure on middle European frontiers. The search leads him to a fairy-tale mountain castle inhabited by an assortment of ...

... Dewey Death, Dewey Death, by Charity Blacklock (Heinemann, 12s 6d). Blacklock (Heinemann, 12s 6d). Post-war fiction has given us not only the crazy mixed-up kid but his elder brother the ex-soldier warped by prisons and interroga tions and unorthodox Resistance fighting. Such a man is Mark Allan, the centre of this detective novel. With him, among the card- indices of an office devoted to ...

... On the Record by JACK BENTLEY Classical BEETHOVEN'S Emperor piano concerto No. 5 in E flat is not only conspicuous for being his greatest work in this form, but it marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the instrument itself. The manufacturers of the time produced a piano with a wider range and general improvement for dynamics which gave the com poser much greater scope for his ...

... Coming to the Warnei Theatre Horrifying story of a demon child with the face of an angel, who inherits homicidal tendencies from her grandma, and has three murders to her credit at the age of eight. Based on a play by Maxwell Andersun, with Paddy McCormack, Nancy Kelly, and other members of original Broadway cast. Not very nice, not very plausible, but certainly a film to start people talking. ...

... Gaumont Robert Mitchum, as a soldier of fortune, gets mixed up in a Mexican revolution in 1916, and falls in love with a gun-runners wife (Ursula Thicss), clearly destined to become a nun-runner's widow. ...

... Harry Nelson and Ann Todd are two of the distinguished personalities in the bright lights of the West End. He is to be seen heading the cast of A'o Time for Sergeants at Her majesty's, while she shortly moves into the Saville by DIC K ICICII VItDN THE name of Barry Nelson rang few bells with us when it was announced that he-- the only American in the cast-- was to star in a Transatlantic ...

... The King and I Carlton The best screen musical so far. With Deborah Kerr (she sings her simpler songs, the rest are dubbed) exactly the way we like her, demure and authoritative as the Victorian English governess, and a breath taking performance by Yul Brynner as the King. It 's hard to take one's eyes off this astonishing artist. Not to be missed on any account. Oklahoma Odeon, Leicester ...