18 FEBRUARY 1966, page 19

Derry City

The guns still poke out of decaying walls, Though trained on nothing, remembering the past. Sentinel over lost glories stands the Guildhall, The tiny city seems crumbling into......

The Nova Mob

The Savage State. By Georges Conchon. Trans- lated by Peter Fryer. (Collins, 21s.) The Freedom of the Cage. By David Lytton. (Bodley Head, 25s.) A Sane and Able Man. By Michael......

Ends Of The Earth

'EVERY age presumably dreams of escaping its bonds, but Europe in the 1770s seems to have been especially ripe for the notion of an earthly paradise. . . In April 1769, Captain......