25 NOVEMBER 1972, page 20

Old-stagers

Philip Hope-Wallace Distinguished Company John Gielgud (Heinemann £2.50) Lewis and Sybil John Casson (Collins £3) The assumption that all actors and actresses are interesting......

Platonic Truth

Dick Davis Passions and Ancient Days Twenty-one new poems by Constantine Cavafy, translated and selected by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis (Hogarth Press £1.25) There is a lot......