18 JANUARY 1957, page 25

The Silver Age

THis is Dr. Waley's nineteenth volume, and has all his familiar virtues : profound scholarship lightly wOrn, wit, wisdom, a deliciously grave sense of the absurd, all expressed......

Crippled Genius

THE TRAGIC LIFE OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. By L. and E. Hanson. (Seeker and Warburg in association with Chatto and Windus, 25s.) Tuts is indeed the story of a tragedy. A wonderful......

Up In The Air

ROCKET. By Sir Philip Joubert de la Fend. (Hutchinson, I8s.) ROCKETS, especially if you call them ballistic missiles confidently and pompously enough, are very merit-acquiring......