3 APRIL 1976, page 22

Bangs And Shingles

Duncan Fallowell Northern Lights Tim O'Brien (Marion Boyars £5.95) Nostalgia is such a wanton weed that any optimist worth his salt would be quite justi- fied in refusing all......

The Road To Istanbul

Humphrey Trevelyan The Genius of Arab Civilisation edited b y A. Hayes (Phaidon £13.95) The World of Islam edited by Bernard Lewis (Thames and Hudson £12.50) Patterns in Islamic......