12 DECEMBER 1970, page 20

Vanity Bag

GERMAINE GREER Beyond the Looking Glass Kathrin Perutz (Hodder and Stoughton 48s) Beyond the Looking Glass there lies not a chessboard but a nightmare world of Frankensteins......

Good For A Story

PETER QUENNELL Cocteau: A Biography Francis Steegmuller (Macmillan 90s) Among the arts of life, Cocteau once re- marked, was knowing 'just how far to go too far'. It was an art......

Guilt By Association

ELIE KEDOURIE The business of the student of politics is to explain politics. It is at his own peril, there- fore, that he takes for granted, or uses on his own account, terms......