11 NOVEMBER 1966, page 21

The Affair

'BY whatever end one takes an incident one is faced by mystery. There are leakages of infor- mation; there are startling alliances and friend- ships; obvious questions are not......

His Ain Folk

Mum can be forgiven a man who is, at one and the same time, the Grand Old Man and enfant terrible of Scottish literature. And, for many admirers of his poetic achievement, there......