26 MAY 1967, page 13

Dawn

HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Translated from the Japanese by Graeme Wilson From pain of long disease The face is spider-webbed. Below the waist the ebbed Flesh has contracted to Thin......

One Awful Example We Could Do Without Books

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH One naturally assumes that a book of approxi- mately 60,000 words which sets out to demon- strate the dispensability of, among other things, Beowulf, The......