... VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE by Robert Furneaux Jordan. The author believes that comprehen sion of Victorian architecture must replace erudition; he compares Victorian England with the US to day, and describes in detail the style he calls self-assured, vulgar, uninhibited, beautiful and gro tesque. A Pelican Original published by Penguin Books on 24 November, 12s 6d PALLADIO by James S Ackerman. ...

... QUERELLE OF BREST by Jean Genet. First translation into Eng lish of Genet's least autobiographi cal novel, and the fourth of his books to be published over here by Anthony Blond, who waited for many years before he judged the climate was right for the writings of the poet of the evil of our times. bet in hsrest. tne seaport town of fogs and granite and lusty sailors, Genet's story is of Quen ...

... GOOD EHTrnG Well, if Mary MacCarthy can't do it, then nobody can. The aim of the exercise, I learned this week, is to make Fortnum's Fountain a literary rendezvous. Working hard at the venture: publisher Barley Alison, who deals with Miss MacCarthy's books at George Weidenfeld's. and critic John Gross. I can tell them that, whenever he's in town, J P Donleavy always has his tea at Fortnum's. ...

... UHLLERIE5 A fine picture frame, no mat ter how elaborate and expen sive--and they are always expensive--can never add one iota to the quality of a picture that it does not already pos sess from the hand of the artist. The frame can only show off what is already there to best advantage. A bad nic- ture frame, usually even more expensive, can overwhelm a valuable work through crass insensibility ...

... In the dear, cinema-filled days of the '40s and '50s, when everything at the Walt Disney studios was cosiness, lovable animals and paint box Technicolor, each Dis ney feature would start with an elaborately-engraved book- cover. In the dear, cinema-filled days of the '40s and '50s, when everything at the Walt Disney studios was cosiness, lovable animals and paint box Technicolor, each Dis ney ...

... Those unfortunates still per suaded that all modern art is a joke directed at themselves personally should visit the Duchamp exhibition at the Tate, where they will prob ably contract paranoia the way other people get hay fever. FIRST FIVE 1 Duchamp (Tate). 2 3 Aubrey Beardsley and Islamic .lades (V A). 4 Rene Maaritte (Zwemmer) 5 Poetic Imaae I Hanover It is also a good exhibition to visit if ...

... FIRST FIVE: 1 Zones by Alexis Lykiard. 2 Billion Dollar Brain by hen Deighton. 3 A Danish Gambit by William Butler. 4 Starting Out in the Thirties by Alfred Kazin. 5 Somerset and all the Maughams by Robin Maugham. This week Anthony Blond publishes Alexis Lykiard's second novel, Zones. It is not one of those books to read on the train to find out what hap pens and whodunit. For 30s you get your ...

... TELEUI5I0I1 FIRST FIVE: 1 Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN, film (BBC-1, Sun, 9.25 pm). 2 The Danny Kaye Show (BBC-2, Mon, 9.5 pm). 3 Inherit The Wind, film (ITV, Mon, 9.40 pm). 4 Millicent Martin Show (ITV, Wed, 9.10 pm). 5 European Teach-in (BBC-2, Thurs, 9.30 pm). Gerald Savory, new head of plays for BBC television, is chasing stars with all the polite fervour of a public- school boy seeking ...

... IHEHTRE FIRST FIVE 1 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. 2 Hello, Dolly 3 The Anniversary. 4 Come Spy With Me. 5 There's a Girl in My Soup. Saul Bellow's rather inter esting triptych of one-act plays has transferred from the fringe of the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre to the small, congenial Fortune Theatre. The plays do not make for the most easeful evening one has ever had in the theatre. The first ...

... nEUI BOORS This week Panther Books are to re-publish Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (3s 6d), which has long had a high reputation, but which for years, since its first publica tion in 1945, has been virtually unobtainable. A chance to re-read her beautifully poetic book at its simplest, the love story of a girl of 23 and a married man who eventually leaves her ...

... UHIUKIU The newly opened Wright Hepburn Gallery in the newly opened Halkin Arcade can be welcomed for several reasons. While the developers and the traffic between them press the pedestrian into ever narrower verges and auto matic collision courses, any where that is sheltered from the rain and the cars and where, within reason, one doesn't have to look where one is going, is a blissful ...

... Books A selection from the books to be published in the coming week This week will be a bumper one for historians-- pro fessional and amateur. About half of the books be ing published for the gen eral reader are historical. Most notable are Sir Maurice Bowra's beauti fully written Landmarks in Greek Literature (Weiden feld & Nicolson, 55s) which charts the stages of that unique vision of the ...