22 APRIL 1966, page 18

American Dreams

HENRY JAMES once contributed an essay to a symposium on life after death. He thought there might be some form of after-life, but this surely must be reserved for people of......

The First Liberals

The Formation of the Liberal Party 1857-1868. By John Vincent. (Constable, 42s.) IN spite of the amount written about ,nineteenth- century Britain, great tracts of its history......