1 FEBRUARY 1986, page 30

A Laughing Butterfly

Michael Horovitz STEVIE: A BIOGRAPHY OF STEVIE SMITH by Jack Barbera and William McBrien Heinemann, £15 T he English reviewing establishment seems to have closed its ranks......

Portraits And Disguises

Allan Massie THE ORIGINALS by William Amos Jonathan Cape, £12.95 W illiam Amos's The Originals carries the sub-title `Who's Really Who in Fic- tion'. It represents a......