29 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 15

Symbols On His Sleeve

Peter Ackroyd The Fort John Hale (Quartet £3.25) Bull Fire MacDonald Harris (Gollancz £2.50) I Come As A Thief Louis Auchincloss (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.25) Frankenstein......

Time And Sympathy

Beverley Nichols The Strenuous Years Cecil Beaton (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £3.50) On her small French bed lay a strange object of art. A minute bird-like head, wrapped in a......