12 FEBRUARY 1983, Page 23

THIS WEEK'S CONTRIBUTORS Victor Anant works for the United Nations

Information Division in New York.

Gillian Avery's latest novel is Onlookers (Collins). She is also the author of two studies of children's literature: Nineteenth Century Children and Childhood's Pattern (both published by Hodder & Stoughton).

Alan Bell is a biographer of Sydney Smith. He is the librarian of Rhodes House, Oxford.

P. J. Kavanagh has recently edited the Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney (Oxford University Press).