4 DECEMBER 1976, page 25

Uncertain Feelings

Peter Ackroyd The New Oxford Book of American Verse Edited by Richard Ellmann (Oxford University Press £7.50) The best anthologies are immodest, partisan and grossly unfair. It......

A Case Of The Missing Author

Harriet Waugh Th e Adventures of Conan Doyle Charles Higham (Hamish Hamilton Z4.95) The literature on Conan Doyle and his r 'eation, Sherlock Holmes, is embarrassI nglY......