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A Slight Case Of Elephantiasis

The Demons. By Heimito von Doderer. Trans- lated by Richard and Clara Winston. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 63s.) THIS massive novel (more than 1,300 pages of it) certainly is a......

Three Poems

By KINGSLEY AMIS When they saw off Dai Evans's da The whole thing was done very nice: Bethesda was packed to the doors And the minister, Urien Price, Addressed them with telling......

The Big Store

A rattle, a woollen ball, A cuddly animal, A flameproof nightdress (Five to seven years) Is pretty. Water-colours And painting-book will Keep someone out of trouble And not make......

Out-patient

Can you stand sanity, committee virtue, Married, seeing its way, good-humoure d And humouring, over forty Thank God, enough to drive you mad, Or insanity with its Look at me......