4 JULY 1958, page 31

The Good Life

Nothing of profit to be got So poor-bare to wind and to rain, His spirit gone to patch his boot, • The hermit returned to the world again. 'Revelation's a burden not to be borne......

Summer Books

The Hateful Profession BY KINGSLEY AM IS I F Gissing were alive today he would not find many people around who satisfied his require- ment of the novelist : that he should have......

Two Poems

GHES By TED HU Crag Jack's Apostasy I do not desire to change my ways, But now call continually On you, god or not god, who Come to my sleeping body through The world under the......