2 SEPTEMBER 1972, page 15

The Drastic And

the pathetic Auberon Waugh A Happy Man P. J. Kavanagh (Chatto and Windus £2.00) Poets are not people, in my experience, who should be encouraged to write novels. Although it is......

Slum Kid Into Sewer-rat

Nicholas Richardson North Louis-Ferdinand Celine (The Bodley Head £3) Any consideration of Celine's novels raises the age-old question: just how far can an author's work be......

Shaking The Foundations

Juliette Harrison Secretary Mary Kathleen Benet (Sidgwick and Jackson £2.50) Have you noticed how dejected, degraded and downright miserable the female officeworker has become?......