Russian Ballets by Adrian Stokes
 
Russian Ballets supplies an interesting analysis and commentary on eight ballets, with notes on many more. It is humorous, imaginative, and always unexpected; one has the feeling of going to Convent Garden with a philosopher who is also a wit, with a poet who is also yourself, so that you see through his eyes. Occasionally very complicated dance moments and stage effects have to be described, and this is done in vivid and exciting prose. Mr Stokes is one of the few writers on ballet known to me who has the root of the matter in him and is thoroughly aware of the true art of ballet.—W J Turner in the New Statesman