27 DECEMBER 1969, page 20

Jolly Swagman

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH 'I G. Wells: His Turbulent Life and Times s at Dickson (Macmillan 63s) Ithough well over a score of his books (not unting school editions, selections and......

Arts Up The Creek

STEPHEN GARDINER The other day the West London Architec- tural Society put on an audio-visual show about the Thames. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century this river has......

Shorter Notices

Pictures of Fidelman Bernard Malamud (Eyre and Spottiswoode 25s). Arthur Fidelman is a failed painter who goes to Italy and becomes, through six episodes, a failed......