4 OCTOBER 1975, page 21

Fiction

Pleasure principle Peter Ackroyd The Peacock Spring Burner Godden (Macmil lan £3.95) The Violent Brink Anthony Beevor (John Murray £3.50) Burial of the Vine Petru Popescu......

Talking Of Books

The case of the pprloined letters Benny Green At frequent junctures in his critical life, Edmund Wilson voiced his unease at the practice of battening on to the contents of some......