20 JANUARY 1961, page 21

Book Of Martyrs

IN the preface to her new novel, Zod Oldenbourg Warns that all the main characters will die at the stake. Notice is given : the squeamish should alight here. Destiny of Fire is......

Versions Of Brecht

Berton Brecht: Plays, Volume I (The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Threepenny Opera, The Trial of Lacunas, The Life of Galileo). (Methuen, 25s.) FIRST things first: and of course......