5 JULY 1969, page 19

Early Days

MARGARET DRABBLE Our Kate Catherine Cookson (Macdonald 25s) jean in the Morning Janet Sandison (Mac- millan 30s) Two northern childhoods at the beginning of the century: two......

Arts Not So Belle Elena

JOHN HIGGINS Elena Suliotis has been a shooting star of the 'sixties. After her first stage appearance at the San Carlo, Naples, in 1964, she soared. That debut was in a fairly......

Shorter Notice

The Web and the Rock Thomas Wolfe (Heinemann 63s). The third volume of Wolfe's giant disguised autobiography gives, like all his work, an impression of great but baffled energy.......