25 OCTOBER 1957, page 27

No Petty People

' WE are no petty people,' Yeats said of the Anglo- Irish. 'We have created most of the literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.' But......

New Novels

Schloss Felding. By Edith de Born. (Chapman and Hall, 14s.) • A Houseful of Love. By Marjorie Housepian. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) LET no one be deterred from reading Schloss......

Voltaire With His Wig Of

ONE of the functions of the writer is to com- municate pleasure; like all arts, that of pleasure can only be enjoyed by the practice of various disciplines. As one reads Miss......