25 MAY 1974, page 20

The Metropolitan Outback

Ian Robinson The Metropolitan Critic Clive James (Faber £ 3 .95) T he "metropolitan critic" of Mr James's titlees say is Edmund Wilson, but the jacket rakes it plain that Mr......

I Books Wanted I

LOIRE VIVIEN ROWE Ann Mansbridge Eyre Methuen. 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4. CAMBRIDGE LESSONS IN ENGLISH by George Sampson (C.U.P. 1948). Shuter, 82 Mt Pleasant Road,......

The Magic Roundabout

Fritz Spiegl The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Record 1900 to 1970 J. B. Steane (Duckworth £10.00) At the present galloping rate of progress, with lunatics,......