4 DECEMBER 1959, page 30

Hellish Hoax

The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. By Rossell Hope Robbins. (Peter Nevill, 63s.) I HOPED that Dr. Robbins's exhaustive, impressive, sick-making, suicidal compilation......

Doing The Impossible

English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Cen- tury. By Bonamy Dobrde. (O.U.P., 42s.) PROFESSOR DOBRgE deserves our heartfelt sym- pathy. Surely there must be something wrong......