11 MAY 1974, page 15

Richard Luckett On A Dead Volcano

"Frankly," wrote Malcolm Lowry, just out of a Haitian hospital where he had spent a week after having drunk himself unconscious, "I have no gift for writing. I started by being......

Knight Errant

Simon Raven G. K. Chesterton A Centenary Appraisal Edited by John Sullivan (Elek £5.00) For there is good news yet to hear and fine things Before we go to Paradise by way of......

Lovable Enigma

Jan Morris Clive of India Mark Bence-Jones (Constable £3.95) Robert Clive is distinctly dead, deader than most of our national heroes, and nearly as dead as all the lesser......