1 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 18

Review Of Books

Richard Luckett on society drawn and quartered "Ask the cartoonist first, for he knows best," wrote W. H. Auden, reflecting on the state of England in the nineteen-thirties.......

Colours Of The Rimbaud

Kay Dick Enid Starkie Joanna Richardson (Murray £4.50) Miss Richardson might well have sub-titled her book on Enid Starkie 'A Humming-Bird at Somerville,' quoting her own......

Insubstantial Pageant

Peter Ackroyd Rosalind Passes Frank Swinnerton (Hutchinson 0.40) The Siege Of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.25) What a familiar ring it has, the novel.' A......