17 DECEMBER 1965, page 16

On The Border

By the window-drizzling leaves, Underneath the rain's shadow, What is that land, you said, beyond • Where the strong river bends the meadow? Is it Cornwall? Is it Devon? Those......

Books Has Hardy Dated?

By JOHN HOLLOWAY H AS Hardy dated? His novels belong intri- cately to their Wessex world; and if that has now no bearing on the world of today, we must find out whether his work......