1' Pearl Buck and atomic experiments

COMMAND THE MORNING, 0 by Pearl Buck (Methuen, I6s.).
0 BABES IN THE WARD, by e, Sheila HO; O'Donnell 12n ns. 6d ella.d Elizabeth Grey , IN this age of violence it k. I e e suppose, inevitable that the manufacture of the first atomic • S bomb should find its way into fiction. In "Command the Morning", 0 Pearl Buck gives what purports to 0 be a true account of the sequence .4 of events in the making of the o bomb. Woven into this are the a' lives of fictional characters-in 0 particular the head of the project, e
e his assistant, the wives of these two men and a brilliant and at the a same time beautiful woman scientist.
I find it hard to believe that in real life scientists give each other such elaborate explanations of processes that they must surely one and all take for granted. But in this instance what else can they do since they arc in the unenviable position of having to make themselves intelligible not merely to each other but to the uninitiated reader?
All who are entertained by the lighter side of hospital life and who have at the same time a weakness for squalling infants and proud mothers will find much to divert them in "Babes in the Ward". an account of a year's t raining in midwifery at St. Columba's, a hospital in the heart of one of Dublin's most crowded
and colourful districts. E.H.