6 MARCH 1964, page 24

Laughing It Off

The World of Harlequin. By Allardyce Nicoll. (C.U.P., £5 5s.) THE commedia dell'arte sprang from obscure origins during the middle of the sixteenth century, and quickly spread......

The Alchemists

FOR its size, influence and accessibility, the homo- sexual world is astonishingly little documented. Kinsey, Hauser and West all fail to give more than a few squints at queer......