6 OCTOBER 1961, page 35

End Of The Lode

ON • the surface the paperback boom shows little sign of dying down. Every month there is a wider choice of brightly coloured goodies in the bookshops to tempt and bewilder the......

To See The World

POETRY, predicted Matthew Arnold, will even- tually take the place of much of what now passes as religion. The odd thing is that he should not have prophesied a poetry of......