26 JANUARY 1968, page 13

Dark Glass

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Jean Cocteau: the Man and the Mirror Elizabeth Sprigge and Jean-Jacques Kihm (Gollancz 42s) This, I am sure, will always be a useful, but it is not a......

His Nibs

HENRY TUBE The new edition of Titus Groan, first published in 1946, is an occasion for celebration. Not that Mervyn Peake's great Gormenghast trilogy has ever been undervalued......