Review of Morris’s The Naked Ape precursor and new volume
A London Daily Telegraph critic questions Morris’s use of zoological theories in popular science. The piece notes reliance on chimpanzee observations, speculative links to human sensual life, and a largely unprovable set of hypotheses while praising Morris as a talented, well‑stocked writer and noting his engaging coverage of intimacy, infant care, fashion, and biology.
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Morris
Aldous Huxley
Tyne
New Shapes for the Stage in Two Modern Plays
John Mortimer and David Selbourne offer flexible non naturalistic forms in recent Methuen Modern Plays. Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Father shifts between external action and inner reflection, portraying a son’s affectionate portrait of his father. Selbourne’s avant garde staging uses juxtaposed scenes in free verse with stylised movement, challenging readers to read beyond the page.
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Methuen Modern Plays
Paper
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Hard
T. & Ion
Beckett
Pinter
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Strong
Meg
Arthur Brackley
Mr Mortimer
Arthur Miller
Robert Anderson
Anderson
Mortimer
Hawthorn Poets Review Critiques Four New Titles
A Canberra reviewer weighs four Hawthorn Press poetry books, praising Ian Mudie’s Look, The Kingfisher as the strongest entry and decrying Hansen’s The Captain and the Birds for its social poet persona. Anne Holman’s A Shadow and a Wish shows selective merit while Morrison’s Opus 4 impresses with craftsmanship. Australia’s Russian Poets translation draws critique for preserving form at the cost of readability.
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Ian Mudie
Hansen
Lytton Strachey bio by Holroyd a massive Penguin volume
Maurice Dunlevy notes the 1144 page biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd in Penguin edition. The book expands Strachey life and Bloomsbury details, with critical analysis moved to a separate volume.
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Ichael Holroya
Lytton Strachey
Penguin
Strachey
Bloomsbury Group
Holroyd
Lytton
Diverse Talent Richard Burton Remembered Through Many Roles
The Victorian era figure Richard Burton is noted as translator of The Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights but also served as a soldier poet translator ethnologist amateur physician botanist zoologist geologist swordsman and linguist. He authored books on his varied interests and travels in India Arabia Africa and America.
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Richard Burton
India
Arabia
Africa
America
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Review of C P Snow's lecture on closing cultural gaps between Anglo Saxon education and Western nations. Notes Snow’s call for renewed education, contrasts with USSR, and cites Macmillan book Public Affairs containing Snow statements since 1959.
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Britain
United States
C. P. Snow
Cambridge
Snow
West
Ussr
Macmillan
Pat Rappolt
The Nerve by Melvyn Bragg reviewed in depth
A detailed review of Melvyn Bragg's The Nerve traces Ted Johnson’s rise from Northern working class origins to an intellectual Hampstead life. It explores identity, class, and self deception as a single day of breakdown and breakthrough reveals the sociological dilemma of self made status. The piece compares themes to Kafka and Kafkaesque shocks, noting jagged, stream of consciousness style and shifting narration.
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Aks
Ted
Ted Johnson
Merver
Gregor Samsa
Kafka
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