19 AUGUST 1960, page 25

Daddy Wordsworth

Stephen Crane: Letters. Edited by R. W. Stall- Cohen. (Centaur Press, 21s.) 'CRANE was not a great letter writer,' admit the editors of this handsome but somewhat daunt- ing......

Sounds Of Battle

ARMS and the man, they sing this week; and in styles ranging from grand opera, through smoking-room ballad, down to the shrill mono- tonous scream of a man in the gutter. A Sort......

Sanctuaries

WE do well to be chary of those who adopt the cause of animals at the expense of people, and at first sight the Grzimeks father and son, authors of Serengeti Shall Not Die......

Brideshead Reassured

Peace, gentle grandsires. Your descendants' Is stayed. Pale Hooper's regiments withdraw, And chfiteau-bottled from the cellars boom Ancestral voices prophesying Waugh. doom......