20 DECEMBER 1968, page 16

Drowsy Numbness

PATRICK ANDERSON Opium and the Romantic Imagination Alethea Hayter (Faber 50s) - Our ancestors, it appears, fairly lapped up their opium. Derivatives of the baleful• pa paver......

Troubled Times

NICHOLAS MANSERGH The Spy in the Castle David Neligan (Mao- Gibbon and Kee 30s) Ireland's Civil War Calton Younger (Muller 50s) These two books on Ireland's time of troubles......