19 MARCH 1965, page 24

The Vinland Story

The Vinland Sagas. Translated with an introduc- tion by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson. (Penguin, 4s.) DURING the last five years Vinland has been more in the news than at......

A House And Its Heads

Bowen's Court. By Elizabeth Bowen. (Long- mans, 42s.) FIRST published in 1942, Miss Bowen's account of her family's connection with Ireland, which stretches over three......

A Prince Of Civility

By EDWARD SHIES J AWAHARLAL NEHRU * was pleased to refer to himself as a lonely man suspended between the two worlds of India and the west, not com- pletely at home in either.......