23 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 40

Waving Not Shrinking

Harold Acton VIOLET TO VITA: THE LETTERS OF VIOLET TREFUSIS TO VITA SACKVILLE-WEST edited by Mitchell A. Leaska and John Phillips Methuen, £16.99, pp. 303 B urn this! Promise,'......

What Makes Sammy Run?

Andro Linklater GOLDWYN by A. Scott Berg Hamish Hamilton, £16.95, pp.582 E xcept for her eye-catching name, the life of Mania Gelbfisz was obscure but — and this is worth noting......

Remembrance

Nothing deliberate. Still, ten years should see The ties of the dead to the living grow less tight. That lonely grave a thousand miles away. Who now can talk my chilling worries......

The Lonely Pass

The sun was setting as I struggled Up here to the Lonely Pass Where, for a grip between bare rock, Stunt trees and ragged grass Struggle with the same dry fierceness As, between......