23 MARCH 1974, page 19

Review Of Books

George Axelrod on Gore, a novelette without parts He was born at the age of nineteen, springing, as it were, full-blown from the pages of Life magazine. The setting for the......

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

i °hn Calder .he Grain of Wheat Lord Longford i (Collins £4.00). N most extraordinary thing about Lord , Iv jleford's third volume of autobiography, ci l lieh brings his......

Iris Is No Pupil

Peter Ackroyd The Sacred And Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Windus £2.50) Miss Murdoch's only concession to modernity is the title of her latest novel,......