12 AUGUST 1978, page 19

Storyteller

Mary Kenny All the Way to Bantry Bay Benedict Kiely (Gollancz E6.50) As the three people who understood the Schleswig-Holstein question ,realised, a border is an arbitrary......

Serenissima

Jan Morris %lice Peter Lauritzen (Weidenfeld £6.95) Now that Venice is apparently not sinking after all British interest in the Serenissima has resumed a less hysterical tenor,......