29 SEPTEMBER 1961, page 26

A World Of Things

The Law Shop. By Leo Townsend. (Heinemann, 18s.) The Window. By Alasdair Clayre. (Cape, 16s.) AT this time of year, when the fiction mills are working three shifts a day to meet......

Justifying The Devil

MILTON wrote Paradise Lost to 'justify the waYs of God to men.' A difficult and necessary task Professor Empson maintains. A God who creates man foreknowing that he will fall,......