17 DECEMBER 1965, page 20

Gothic Masterpiece

GUNTHER GRASS is the bright particular star of contemporary German literature and a new novel by him is, or should be, a portent. For Herr Grass, in addition to his enormous......

,strictly For Fun

VIViAN ELLIS's How To Be a Man About Town (Frederick Muller, 15s.) turns out to be not quite what it appears at first: it hasn't the knockabout humour that would seem to go with......

Vanity Fair

TALL MALL,' writes J. M. Scott at the end of this brief and elegant account, `[has now fallen] victim to the modern passion for the one-way street, creation of the one-track......