Countryman
'THE public is not undiscerning,' C. P. Scott wrote in his celebrated 'facts are sacred' pro- nouncement: 'It recognises the authentic voices of conscience and conviction.' It......
Islandic Saga
As T. S. Eliot pointed out a long time ago, every age needs its own translations to bring the classics of other languages into a more immediate relationship with contemporary......
Not So Odd
THE sub-title of James Turner's The Dolphin's Skin (Cassell, 21s.) is 'six studies in eccen- tricity' and it consists of essays on Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, Edmund......
Amateur Poet
.THERE is no need to . make more than the modest claim of antiquarian interest.' Mr. Grant says, to justify the publication for the first time of Newcastle's poems to his future......
From Karachi. To Kamchatka
FEW contemporaries can have so 'wide a range of direct experience of Theatre in Asia as Mr. Faubion Bowers, whose Theatre in the East (Nelson, 42s.) surveys the many forms of......
New Novels
Two quite formidably clever women novelists this week take— Penelope Mortimer with The Bright Prison (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) and Brigid Brophy with The King of a Rainy......
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