22 DECEMBER 1961, page 16

Mirrors Up To Art

CYRIL CONNOLLY pointed out recently that writ- ing parodies was a sure sign of ambition in a young writer. As Dwight Macdonald writes in the introduction to his scholarly and......

Up From Irishry

Teems of Times and Happy Returns. By Dominic Behan. (Heinemann, 18s.) IN every fat man there's a thin one struggling frantically to get out: in Brendan Behan's case its his......

Djangology

'DJANGO' (JEAN BAPTISTE) REINHARDT WaS un- questionably the greatest jazz musician Europe has yet produced, and Charles Delaunay's well- intentioned but overwritten biography......