26 JANUARY 1962, page 27

Ends Of The Earth

MICHAEL KENNEY'S A Spanish Tapestry (Cohen and West, 25s.) is a first-rate account of life at the present day in two widely separated parishes in Castile—one on the high sierra,......

Shabby Genteel

The Letters of George Gining to Eduard Bertz, 1887-1903. Edited by Arthur C. Young. (Constable, 30s.) DESPITE the oppressive drabness of their sub- jects, and a style in which......