12 FEBRUARY 1965, page 23

The Ambassadors

The Bad Samaritan is a tarragbn-toned novel constructed with the intense precision (though without the comic bravura) which characterised Anne Rider's first book, The Learners.......

It's A Crime•

CELIA FREMLIN'S g arrulous suburbs are always seethin g with repressed violence. In The Jealous One (Gollancz, I5s.), Lindy is the kind of subtle charmer who turns wives into......

The Critics

By MALCOLM BRADBURY T AST year The Times Literary Supplement ran two special issues in which a number of critics, English, European and American, wit- nessed to their views on......