23 JUNE 1961, page 26

Sassoon's Progress

THE first poem in this collection. 'The Old Hunts- man,' is hardly even a ghost today. A colourless dramatiC monologue, it lacks the infinitely but subtly self-centred presence......

Grubby Giant

George Gissing and MG. Wells. Edited by Roy A. Gettman. (Hart-Davis, 25s.) IF GISSING is a great writer (and there is a sense in which he is) it is because the greatness of hit......