23 JUNE 1961, page 26
Sassoon's Progress
THE first poem in this collection. 'The Old Hunts- man,' is hardly even a ghost today. A colourless dramatiC monologue, it lacks the infinitely but subtly self-centred presence......
Grubby Giant
George Gissing and MG. Wells. Edited by Roy A. Gettman. (Hart-Davis, 25s.) IF GISSING is a great writer (and there is a sense in which he is) it is because the greatness of hit......