3 MAY 1975, page 17

Talking Of Fine Arts

Bohemia, WI Benny Green As every artistic community is a contradiction in terms, and as there is something philistine to the verge of slapstick in the English temperament, it is......

Fiction

Fads Peter Ackroyd See The Old Lady Decently B. S. Johnson (Hutchinson £3.25) Snipe's SpinsterJeff Nuttall (Calder and Boyars £2.95) I know that it's very fashionable to read......