14 NOVEMBER 1958, page 28

Novel Of Manneis

IT is autumn, 1956. Janos Lavin, a Hungarian Communist painter who has been living here for nearly twenty years without recognition, has dis- appeared immediately after his......

Make Him Decent

Verlaine: Prince of Poets. By Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) IT was in 1933 that Francois Porchd published his revealing study of Paul Verlaine, which......