30 OCTOBER 1964, page 25

Song For An Attempted Suicide

Tell yourself you are equal, Tell yourself till you die • That the attempt you made was not lethal, And do not live a lie. Love you have found conies deeper From friend and......

The Big Southern Novel Show

Ir is astonishing how anyone with Robert Penn Warren's serious reputation could have written such a pulpy novel as Flood. Mr. Warren, after all, is the author of All the King's......

Right Words, Wrong Words

Birth of a Shark. By David Wevill. (Macmillan, 18s.) PERHAPS the most dangerous gift for a poet is to be over-clever. This is not to disparage either technical aptipde or verbal......

Caught In Time

P UBLISHED in 1944, Trevelyan's English Social Iiistory had sold 392,000 copies by 1949. No history book had sold so many copies in so short a time: indeed, the public response......