19 AUGUST 1966, page 19

To A Shell

At last, beautiful shell, Lie there crushed; but the sea Cannot obliterate yet Faith I remember well: A house facing the sea. Hard and bitterly Though waves beat on that wall......

Cootamundra Blues

MI Day Saturday. By Colin MacInnes. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 25s.) The War Babies. By Gwen Davis. (Arthur Barker, 25s.) Tony. By Patrick Dennis. (Arthur Barker, 21s.) The Chicken.......

Poison Spray

LENNY BRUCE, found dead in Hollywood three weeks ago, from a suspected overdose of heroin, probably made more appearances in court than on stage. During the past five years this......

Jackboot And Swastika

The German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933- 1939. By Robert J. O'Neill. (Cassell, 63s.) PRussiA, it used to be said, was a state con- quered by an army. and Germany, it was also......