22 MAY 1959, page 24

The Great Conger

Mythologies. By W. B. Yeats. (Macmillan, 21s.) The Masterpiece and the Man: Yeats as I knew him. By Monk Gibbon. (Rupert Hart-Davis, 21s.) THERE are three Yeatses in these two......

Still Deaths

SOME of the more striking of these famous photo- graphs—McLellan posing with Lincoln, the dead at Gettysburg, the bridge across the Chicka- hominy—have often been reproduced.......