12 FEBRUARY 1977, page 22

Unnatural Acts

Benny Green The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble K nights John Steinbeck . (Heinemann 26.50) E very epoch gets the Round Table it deserves, and as it is now five hundred years......

Tricks Of The Light

Peter Ackroyd The Consciousness of Joyce Richard Ellmann (Faber arid Faber £5.50) Richard Ellmann's slim volume, looking rather like a breviary, treads again on the hallowed......