18 JANUARY 1963, page 16

Art

Probing Holbein By NEVILE WALLIS As the great artist of the northern humanist movement, which had its centre in Basle round Erasmus and his asso- ciates, the fame of the younger......

Mu S Ic

More About Verdi By DAVID CAIRNS Pierre Petit, whose Verdi is one of the new Calder series of musical paperbacks, is a great evolutionist; for instance, the comic opera Un......

Played Out

By CLIFFORD HANLEY IN a week that includes Dark- ness at Noon it seems mean to criticise television drama in general, but I do get the feel- ing that a grey mist has fallen on......