23 APRIL 1983, page 23

Simply Myself

Eric Christiansen Jean-Jacques: The early life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Maurice Cranston (Allen Lane £14.95) It was a bad day for the world when J-J Rousseau decided to......

The Distinguished Thing

Nigel Nicolson The Oxford Book of Death Chosen and edited by D.J. Enright (Oxford University Press £9.50) I was reading this book seated at a bar. The barmaid, stealing a......