10 FEBRUARY 1961, page 30

Who-done-what

No Signposts in the Sea. By V. Sackville-West. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) 'REALITY' is on the rack in France. Robbe- Grillet tries to abolish all forms of metaphor, Nathalie......

Li Vy

HORATIUS at the bridge, Coriolanus. the rape of Lucretia still hold their place in literate folklore, thanks to Shakespeare and Macaulay—but no longer to Livy. The emperor......