15 FEBRUARY 1963, page 23

The Trouble With Phaedra

WINSTON (`Mug') Dangerfield is an American novelist so distinguished that his books are re- quired reading in (American) universities. He has now emerged from a long silence......

The Smell Of Books

..HAROLD MACMILLAN, with the Second World War approaching, plumping for a hundred-thousand print of Gone With the Wind at five shillings; with war declared, and other publishers......

Dig That Decorum

C ontemporary American Poetry. Selected and introduced by Donald Hall. (Penguin. 6s.) IN his Penguin anthology (though not in his splendidly eclectic Meridian Book, New Poets of......