30 JANUARY 1959, page 33

Minor Pasternak

THIS miscellany contains speculative and critical pieces, stories and earliest poems. A few of the contributors are very big names. It is, all the same, a dull book. From Ernst......

Fires In Snow

Poems Partly American, By A. L. Rowse. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) POEMS by elderly dons should perhaps be judged by a special standard like that applied to the paintings of the Royal......