20 APRIL 1956, page 40

Divagations

PREDILECTIONS. By Marianne Moore. (Faber, 180 THOSE who cannot make much of Miss Marianne Moore's ve rse . and feel they have perhaps not missed much either, will find the prose......

Unpredictability

RISK AND GAMBLING. By John Cohen and Mark Hansel. (Long- mans, 14s,) THIS is not an easy book. Up to a point the metaphysics of probability are plain sailing, and so far Messrs.......

The People's Victor

BY DONAT O'DONNELL How came it that this prudent, economical man was also generous? That this chaste adolescent, this model fatW: grew to be in his last years an ageing faun?......