8 DECEMBER 1973, page 19

Tomorrow And Tomorrows

Peter Ackroyd Sadness Donald Barthelme (Jonathan Cape £2.50) Hail To The Chief Ed McBain (Hamish Hamilton £2.00) Vermilion Sands J, G. Ballard (Jonathan Cape £2.25) The only......

Renaissance Spectacle

A.L. Rowse Splendour at Court. Renaissance Spectacle and Illusion Roy Strong (Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 0.95.) We already owe a great deal to Dr Roy Strong for his discoveries......