25 MAY 1962, page 22

Crypto-humour

Spillway. By Djuna Barnes. (Faber, 15s.) Select Tales of Tchehov. (Chatto and Windus, I8s.) IN his recent lecture, Sir Charles Snow spoke of novelists who had not received the......

Deep As England

Penguin Modern Poets 1 (Durrell, Jennings, R. S. Thomas) and 2 (Amis, Moraes, Porter). (2s. 6d. each.) THERE isn't any new poetry: it's only a title, tilting at 'the Movement,'......