Charles Dickens -- Boys' weeklies -- Inside the whale -- Drama reviews: The tempest, The peaceful inn -- Film review: The great dictator -- Wells, Hitler and the world state -- The art of Donald McGill -- No, not one -- Rudyard Kipling -- T.S. Eliot -- Can socialists be happy? -- Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali -- Propaganda and demotic speech -- Raffles and Miss Blandish -- Good bad books -- The prevention of literature -- Politics and the English language -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of Gulliver's travels -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Writers and Leviathan -- Review of The heart of the matter by Graham Greene -- Reflections on Gandhi.