21 DECEMBER 1962, page 20

Up With Cyclops

Monitor. Edited and introduced by Huw Whel- don. (Macdonald, 18s.) The Truth about Television. By Howard Thomas. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 25s.) ON November I Monitor, the......

Hammerheads And Swiveltails

Myth and Maneater. By David Kenyon Webster. (Peter Davies, 25s.) ONCE at Manly—it was in 1944, 1 think—we missed one of our friends as we were leaving the surf. He had been......

Creation

I spread more wide than the bounds of the worl d ' 1 am smaller than a worm, outstrip the sun, I shine more brightly than the moon. The swelh" of the seas, The fair face of the......

Two Old English Riddles For Christmas

Translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland Monster and man are both associated with the posing and guessing of riddles . . . for example , the Sphinx and the citizens of Thebes,......

Cross

1 am supple of body and sport with the wind, re al I am clothed with finery, and the storm's B re friend, Ready to travel, but troubled by fire, A glade in full bloom, and a......