15 DECEMBER 1973, page 19

The Innocent Critic

Peter Quennell The Contrary Experience Herbert Read (Secker and Warburg, £3.25) Subtitled on the dust-cover, though not on the title-page, 'The Autobiography of Herbert Read',......

The Heart Of The Matter

Peter Ackroyd Season of Anomy Wole Soyinka (Rex Collings £3.00) The Wound Malick Fall (Heinemann Educational Books 60p) I may be white, but I'm no liberal. Unlike certain other......

Hitler, Almost The Man

Donald Watt Hitler by Werner Maser, translated by Peter and Betty Ross, (Allen Lane £5.00), The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by Robert Payne (Cape £3.95). To write a biography......