24 DECEMBER 1965, page 22

The Time-tripper's Vade-mecum

IDEALLY, books about the past should extend in depth the fascination of books about abroad. Ideally, they should also help to explain, even when they purport to offer a mere......

All The Conspirators

THE Stuarts have had a wonderful run for their money these last thirty years: Shaw, Feiling, Bryant, apologists all for the pedant, the martyr, the rake and the bigot. Whatever......

Required Reading

Mits. Leavis's book was required reading in my student days, along with the scrutineering of `F.R.L.' (its dedicatee), the works of I. A. Richards, Seven Types of Ambiguity,......