24 JULY 1959, page 23

Ends Of The Earth

ASTONISHING how little has been written on Berlin in English. Isherwood, of course, and that scene in Agents and Patients; some in- teresting war-time adventures with Christian......

Up For Air

'The character of John,' his first school- master wrote when Durham was six, 'is very uncommon. I think he is capable of going as far in good or bad as any human being I have......