10 JULY 1964, page 32

We Call This Friday Good

The Morning Watch. By James Agee. (Peter Owen, 16s.) WE are seldom taken for what we want to be taken for. In life, James Agee settled into being a big film-man, and that......

The Daemon Of Bacon

By NEVILE WALLIS Incongruous as the two figures are, the painter Francis Bacon poses his own riddle of a brilliant imaginative flame leaping out of an impenetrable darkness......