1 JANUARY 1960, page 32

Ha-ha For The Bohemians

The Banquet Years. By Roger Shattuck. (Faber,' 36s.) THERE is always something vaguely suspect in Anglo-Saxon enthusiasm for la vie de Boheme. . When the Anglo-Saxons in......

Eliot And Fry

The Third Voice. By Denis Donoghue. (0.U.P., 30s.) THAI' the prestige of poetic drama in any age is no guarantee of permanent literary achievement is a lesson of history. We......

Civil And Military

THE ability of American statesmen to control the activities of the military who are constitutionally their subordinates has been much debated in the United States in recent......