26 FEBRUARY 1994, page 38

Early, Late

Hopscotch through the maze of boughs long-tailed tits jink and flicker, calling to each other like girls on an outing, the flirty streamers of their tails preened for fiesta.......

Awake, My Soul, And With The Son . . .

Francis King MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM: VOLUME I, A STAR SHINES OVER MT MORRIS PARK by Henry Roth Weidenfeld, £15.99, pp. 290 T he story of Henry Roth is a piquant and affecting......

The Return Of A Native

Michael Bywater THE GREAT AMERICAN BUS RIDE by Irma Kurtz Fourth Estate, £6.99, pp. 318 A capable woman in her middle years has, e sua genera, a certain advantage lost to young......

Still Thinking Continually

William Scammell DOLPHINS by Stephen Spender Faber, £12.99, £5.99, pp. 46 E r Yeats, Lowell and Spender alike, dolphins are a manifestation of happiness and delight. Spender's......