29 JULY 1966, page 21

Winter's Tale

The Transfer. By Silvano Ceccherini. Translated by Isabel Quigly. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) The LB.I Brigade. By William Wilson. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 18s.) Mate in Three.......

Nabokov By Nabokov

FROM the large corpus of Vladimir Nabokov's early work the novel Despair (first published in Russian and English thirty years ago) has now been rescued and revamped, and is here......