1 DECEMBER 1973, page 20

Dynasty And Rituals

Magnus Magnusson The First Great Civilisations — Life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt. Jacquetta Hawkes (Hutchinson £5.50). Quite simply, this is a splendid book. As......

Superdeath

Duncan. Fallowell Marilyn Norman Mailer (Hodder and Stoughton £4.95) *Marilyn Monroe is forty-seven this year. Like Oscar Wilde who for years after his assumed death was seen......