29 JANUARY 1965, page 23

Mainstream

The Terminal. By Anthony Glyn. (Hutchinson, 18s.) ' Honey on the Moon. By Maude Hutchins. (Blond, 18s.) IT is a real pleasure to read a truly educated and cultured novel such as......

Ends Of The Earth

Edward Lear in Southern Italy. Introduction to and Windus, 21s.) MR. FINER's introduction to Greece has several v virtues, but they are of the sort that demands ao Ba r......

Essays On Tippett

Michael Tippett: A Symposium. Edited by Ian Kemp. (Faber, 50s.) AT the sight of Tippett's name many things come thronging back to me apart from the man's s hining candour and......

The Floating Life

Leafing through old diaries as ill-attired as autumn in winter's clothes: the same recurrent anguish in drowning scribbles with the ascenders reaching beyond my gravity's......