26 JANUARY 1962, page 28

Death In The Corn

IN a week largely devoted to foreign parts, Grigory Baklanov's The Foothold is outstand- ing. It describes the Russians' ferocious defence of a bridgehead across the Dniester in......

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......