15 MARCH 1968, page 18

Lies Like Truth

JEAN FRANCO End of the Game and other stories Julio Cortazar translated by Paul Blackburn (Collins and Harvill 25s) `I want to be elsewhere, elsewhere,' runs a poem by Robert......

You Know It Well

ROBERT HUGHES After the publication of Imitations, and the ver- sions of odes by Horace and the tenth satire of Juvenal which appeared in Near the Ocean, Robert Lowell's readers......

Rome, Sweet Rome

MARTIN JARRETT-KERR The Church Hans Ming (Burns and Oates 84s) These two books might have been written ex- pressly to illustrate the clerihew: Can anyone mould the Vatican?......