6 APRIL 1962, page 26

Time Of War

The Barbary Light. By P. H. Newby (Faber, 18s.) WILLIAM STYRON'S American reputation may have slightly baffled English readers acquainted only with the two novels by him which......

Allegory Of The Windvane

Poems in English. By Samuel Beckett. (John Calder, 13s. 6d.) JOHN HOLLOWAY's The Land Jailers is an allegory of two major themes of this century: betrayal (Under Western Eyes,......