7 OCTOBER 1966, page 22

Convalescent Art

'FAINT, pale, embarrassed, exquisite Paterl'— Henry James's words have become the stock judgment, and poor Pater's fastidious, delicate prose is little read today. We think of......

Plato Plain

THIS is, as from the author of The Concept of Mind it could scarcely fail to be, a bold and rollicking book. It is also, surely, the most in- portant work about Plato to have......