9 MARCH 1974, page 20

Life With The Stars

Duncan Fallowell Monsieur Butterfly — The Story of Puccini Stanley Jackson (W. H. Allen £3.50) Puccini was lucky. He made it just before opera changed from being the most......

The Unknown Novelist

Benny Green The only books I am talking about this week are the other kind, the books which are never published, whose contents change from night to night, and which after a......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The sudden news last week that Penguin are to discontinue their schools publishing programme made one of the year's sadder bits of reading. It also bore some contrast to......