11 DECEMBER 1964, page 19

Cattle Market

Queues all over the place—queue up for the bog, For breakfast, lectures—lecturers! pallid ones Earnest in spectacles tell us for our good 'Symbols contain experience as they......

Polycarpic Polnay

The Plaster Bed. By Peter de Polnay. (W. H. Allen, 18s.) The Night in Lisbon. By Erich Maria Remarque. The Boy Who Wanted Peace. By George Friel. (Calder, 25s.) The Honey Bird.......

It's A Crime

NICOLAS FREELING is fascinated by the unortho- dox. He likes a devious, loose-ended theme, a mystery that lives on in the mind because it's impossible to file away. He continues......