24 JANUARY 1958, page 23

Rhyme-lag

Then There Was Fire. By Minou Drouet. (Hamish Hamilton, 10s. 6d.) A Beginning. By Dom Moraes. (The Parton Press, 8s. 6d.) Brutus's Orchard. By Roy Fuller. (Andre Deutsch, 12s.......

Exploding World

The Human Sum: How Many Should We Be? Edited by C. H. Rolph. (Heinemann, 18s.) So Malthus was right after all; and a world pre- occupied with the danger of obliteration is rush......