13 DECEMBER 1975, page 17

Grass Roots

Richard Cobb France under the Directory Martyn Lyons (Cambridge University Press, £9.70) few years ago it was still common for h istorians of the revolutionary period in France......

Problems

Malcolm Bradbury Pound Donald Davie (Fontana Modern Masters 60p.) There is a great bulk of writing about Ezra Pound now, and he seems effectively to have displaced Eliot as one......