21 JULY 1967, page 15

Turnstile

KENNETH ALLSOP The Beautiful Years Henry Williamson (Faber 7s 6d) The Beautiful Years is the turnstile to the mate which Henry Williamson's eventual biographer will have to pick......

Transfigurations

ELIZABETH JENNINGS The w ords will have to come without much ease. Difficulty of tongue, an aching hand. Sometimes they will not come, I know, Merely belong to birds and far-off......

Master Beckett

ANTHONY BURGESS Beckett at Sixty by various writers (Calder and Boyars 25s) The year before last, on the Zeckendorff Campus, 1 heard Dr George Steiner affirm publicly that......