23 MARCH 1962, page 23

Long Stop

SEVENTEEN years and goodness knows how many volumes of spiteful diaries later, who is unaware that the Second World War. was in reality a whole series of wars, of which those......

Toys, Idle Toys

Last Year at Marienbad. By Alain Robbe- Grillet. Translated by Richard Howard. (Calder, 22s.; paperback, 13s. 6d.) IT is easy to lose one's temper about Marienbad; not doing so......