1 JANUARY 1960, page 33
Carry On Breathing
°R. DAVIE has sought and won a reputation as a kind of iron-lung poet, interested in, and devot- i ng an admirable intelligence to, the techniques of carrying on breathing, the......
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......
Fishing
A Clash of Cymbals. By James Blish. (Faber, 13s. 6d.) The Tongue of Fire. By Mika Waltari. (Putnam, 12s. 6d.) IN some ways, a week like this can be more inter- esting than a......