10 JANUARY 1976, page 18

In Public

Peter Ackroyd The Collected Poems, 1956-1974 Edward Dorn (Four Seasons Foundation $5.00) Edward Dorn is one of the two or three best American poets now writing; if I add that he......

Chuckles

Benny Green Chekhov, Seven Stories Translated by Ronald Hingley (Oxford Paperbacks £1.25) Chekhov, Eleven Stories Translated by Ronald Hingley (Oxford Paperbacks £1.75) Chuckle......

The

Spectator January 10,19 called, most indecorously ; Chuckle with Chekhov, an outrage Which inspires nightmares involving titters with Turgenev, guffaws with , Gogol and laffs......

Bookend

The Christmas bookselling season has produced few real surprises and that is the least surprising thing of all. The DBC continued to dominate with its battery of......

Hall-mark

It was comforting to see Allan Hall — "Atticus" of the Sunday Times — retaining his panache right to the very end. In his final column, published on28th December, Mr Hall led......