1 OCTOBER 1965, page 23

New York Letter

What's New? By M. L. ROSENTHAL 1TERATURE, said Pound, is `news that stays news,' But most news about literature is of the more transient kind, gossipy or political or both.......

Koestler's Danube

B y ANTHONY BURGESS As a sixtieth birthday present, Arthur Koestler's works are being brought out in a uniform collection, very well printed and bound, though rather expensive,......