28 OCTOBER 1972, page 26

A Homer Of Our Own

Christopher Gill To Homer Through Pope H. A. Mason (Chatto and Windus £2.75) While Rieu's Penguin translations of Homer sell by the thousand on English bookstalls, and American......

A Child Of Mixtures

Isabel Quigly Memoirs 1906-1969 Manya Harari (Harvill Press £3.50) "Fortunately she seemed to need less sleep than most people ": so they say in their notes about Manya Harari,......

A Little Lerner

Richard Luckett The Uses of Nostalgia: Studies in Pastoral Poetry Laurence Lerner (Chatto and Windus £3). The question of pastoral can hardly be called new. Although of all......