11 DECEMBER 1959, page 28

Just Being

Art and Outrage. By Alfred Per les and Lawrence Durrell. (Putnam, 10s. 6d.) 'HE himself seems to me essentially a man of one book. Sooner or later I should expect him to descend......

Human Hearts

A Choice of Ornaments. By Nicolas Bentley. (Andre Deutsch, 25s.) 'IN each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale,' wrote Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's......