25 OCTOBER 1963, page 27

Proles On Parade

NOTTINGHAM. A ragman knocks on a door. `Got any old rags, mate?' The collier answers, 'Ar, tek me,' and slams the door. Elsewhere a teen- age couple are briefly brought together......

The Influence Of F. R. Leavis

By J. B. BAMBOROUGH NE thing is certain: when the literary O history (and for that matter, the social history) of England in the mid-twentieth cen- tury comes to be written,......