21 DECEMBER 1962, page 21

A Cultured. Carthage

FROM the swamps of the last days of the Fourth French Republic, or even from the lofty heights of the Fifth, it is perfectly possible to look back with nostalgia on what now......

Among The Poetmen

Affinities. By Vernon Watkins. (Faber, 15s.) MR. Slow has a distinct and unfair advantage over the others. His poems come beautifully ac- companied by seven plates of Nolan......