20 MARCH 1982, page 20

Misreadings

Anthony. Storr On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascina - tion with Meaning Bruno Bettelheim and Karen Zelan (Thames & Hudson £7.95) T he indefatigable Bruno Bettlheim , who......

Queenie And The Gay Life

A. N. Wilson I t is hard to take 'literary editors' seriously. Many of them are not really editors, and precious few are notably literary. Publishers send them the books.......