8 DECEMBER 1973, page 27

New Vistas

Colin Wilson The Mind Possessed. William Sargan t (Heinemann £3.25) In 1924, the River Neva in Leningrad flooded , and the water swept into the laboratory of the 'psychologist......

Talking Of Books

Historians at play Benny Green The anomalies of Edwardianism continue to exercise the minds of an age which is more extravagant only in its method of dealing out death and......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The splitting of the NUJ's book and magazine branch into two autonomous halves marks another significant step forward in the union's invasion of publishing privacy. Up......