26 MAY 1961, page 32

Flanders

Dead eyeballs blurred by hard rain, Mouths that grin into mud and Puddles unwinding heavy crimson. They hear nothing of peace. They remain locked in their problem. The young......

Man Market

The Slaves of Timbuktu. By Robin Maugham. (Longmans, 25s.) ROBIN Nit/writ-Ism has been very clever in writing about a trip he made to Timbuktu. It was, with- out being too harsh......

Before The Beginning

I REMEMBER my mother once confiding to me that her awareness of the world as an exhilarat- ing but risky place dated from the day on which she heard that the Titanic had sunk.......