12 AUGUST 1978, page 20

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,......

Name-drops

Richard Ingrams The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters Edited and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis (John Murray £6.95) This is an unusual book. It. consists of the correspondence......

Neato

Francis King Waiting for Cordelia Herbert Gold (Hutchinson £4.95) There are certain children who, with their world-weary lassitude, their shrivelled -u P appearances and their......