3 DECEMBER 1965, page 21

Austere In Whalebone

Th e Eye of the Scarecrow. By Wilson Harris. (Faber, 16s.) THERE must be a generation (perhaps more than One) that has learned its response to Edith Wharton from Kingsley Amis's......

China Shop

The Great Chinese Travellers. Edited by Jean- Rugoff. (Cassell: Caravel Books, 25s.) IF there's one thing even less profitable than a closed shop, it's a closed mind. If the......