10 AUGUST 1962, page 21

Menaced Mildness

T o judge by his new book, A Sense of Danger, Vernon Scannell seems almost too real to be true, the typical contemporary English poet, his 'whole terrain a wintry cabbage......

Cradle And Rocks

Prehistoric Crete. By R. W. Hutchinson. (Pelican, 10s. 6d.) AT the outset of this eagerly anticipated and deeply satisfying survey, Mr. Hutchinson has a reminder for the general......