16 MAY 1969, page 18

Sly Dog

BRYAN ROBERTSON Reaching instantly for my lethal, if only mental, machine gun, as I invariably do when confronted by intellectualised dissections of nice, easy, enjoyable......

Nice Mice

ISABEL QUIGLY -The Mouse and his Child Russell Hoban (Faber Hs) "War," muttered the father. "The dustbin, the •dump, murder, robbery, and war."' Fit subjects for children's......

Rhyme And Reason

BARRY COLE The Wind Has Wings : Poems from Canada compiled by Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson illustrated by Elizabeth Cleaver (our. 35s) Shadows and Spells edited by......