27 JANUARY 1961, page 19

Books

Revenger's Tragedy BY D. W. HARDING A LTHOUGH The Mansion* completes the chronicle of social change begun in The Hamlet and continued in The Town, Faulkner's preface points out......

Lhasa To Laos

The Ignorant Armies. By E. M. Halliday. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) THOSE who find themselves disturbed by the insurance company's advertisement of a row of deteriorating......

Between The Sheets

THERE is, or was for a long time, a very recognisable Manchester Guardian style of journalism, colourful yet elegantly rational and restrained. Possibly too rational: one' can......