4 MAY 1974, page 19

Ow And In Ligland

, fl us Heaney 1 87 .eePin g Lord, David Jones, (Faber and r ,E2.95) enot ' L lee Ping Lord is David Jones's fourth full °L'i Work, or "writing". It carries, as an t i . li t i......

The Oldest Profession

Peter Ackroyd The Athenian Widow Robert Harling (Chatto and Windus £2.50) Oktoberfest Frank De Felitta (Collins £2.25) ABCD David Slavitt (Hamish Hamilton, £2.40) The Athenian......