Promptly the Mistral. getting icily up Off Ventoux's slopes, at

one blow fells velleity, Stirs how and why. more pointing to more ends. Whatever year it is, seems (as it were)

Volatilized, lost in the view—granting we retrench Infers a pause in labour.

I think I follow this, but it does seem rather an involved and at-three-removes way of saying that it's difficult to make up one's mind.

Back to the bookshelf with Charles Olson. Confucius. Mencius. lamblichus, Nathan Bed- ford Forrest, Rimbaud, somebody called Creeley. . . . The list is endless, and they all get worked into a ranting Poundian catalogue, larded with French and Italian. I note, desperately, that Mr. Olson 'has come to be regarded as a major American poet by many leading literary figures,' and wonder if I'm getting too old, too British, or if somebody else's eyes aren't having the wool pulled over them.

ANTHONY THWAITE

Branwell Brontë

WINIFRED GERIN 'The prevailing impression which the book makes upon me is to convert me into an aspiring Brontologist.' Maurice Richardson in The Bookman. A companion volume to the same author's Anne Bronte, an 'absorbing and authoritative study.'

The Times 32 pages of halftones Book Society Non-Fiction Choice John 0' London's Book of the Month

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Forces and Fields

MARY B. HESSE MSc PhD The study of the concept of Action at a Distance in the history of Physics. This book traces through history some of the problems

• raised by one theoretical question: "How do bodies act on one another across space?" The author is a member of the University of Cambridge Committee for the Ilkior■ and Philosophy of Science.

Nelson

COMPANY MEETING

SMITH'S POTATO CRISPS

THE Thirty-second Ordinary General Meeting of Smith's Potato Crisps Limited was held on July 25 in London. Mr. F. Le Neve-Foster, chairman in the course of his speech, said: