19 JULY 1986, page 30

The Bitter Fruits Of Rej Ection

Anita Brookner BARBARA PYM by Robert Emmet Long Ungar, New York, $16.95 T he extraordinary critical fortunes of Barbara Pym are by now too well known to need further......

The Dismal Doings Of Debauched D.

Jeremy Lewis J. P. DONLEAVY'S IRELAND in all her sins and in some of her graces by J. P. Donleavy Michael Joseph, £12.95 B ack in the early Sixties, when I was an undergraduate......

Children

We give them what we can, but fail To offer more than love, or something less, Commend to them the customs of the race, Then watch them turn about, set sail And make each for......