1 APRIL 1960, page 25

Second Childhood

'ONE invents one's childhood,' says Peter de Polnay; Jessica Mitford suffers from the dis- advantage of having had hers already invented for her by her elder sister Nancy. The......

Landscapes With Figure

.The Colossus of Maroussi. by Henry Miller. (Heinemann, 18s.) FIRST published here in 1942, this is an account ! I f the author's travels in Greece just before and into the last......

Himmlersberg

THE jacket of Rudolf Nassauer's first novel sends the names Mann, Hesse and Dostoievsky boom- ing across the reader's bow, and closes in—lest he remain unstunned enough to......