20 DECEMBER 1968, page 17

Drowsy Numbness

PATRICK ANDERSON Opium and the Romantic Imagination Alethea Hayter (Faber 50s) - Our ancestors, it appears, fairly lapped up their opium. Derivatives of the baleful• pa paver......

New Novels

Near originals MAURICE CAPITANCIIIK Shades of Grey Garth St Omer (Faber 25s) Night of Glass Philip Purser (Hodder and Stoughton 21s) 'Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No......