15 MAY 1959, page 26

Book-making

The Critical Writings G: James Joyce. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. (Faber, 25s.) THIS is an impudent piece of book-making, which is instructive in only one......

Dying Gods

MARIA BROWNE, Who, her publisher says, is verY young indeed, has chosen the Rome of Nero for her first novel and peopled it with young men and women recognisably taken straight......

Circus At Coppet

Adolphe and The Red Note-book. By Benjamin Constant. With an Introduction by Harold Nicolson. (Hamish Hamilton, 15s.) THAT hussy,' that bitch,' that whore,' Napoleon said of......