4 SEPTEMBER 1976, page 18

Men Of Ideas

Pat Rogers The Newtonians and the English Revolution 1689-1720 M C. Jacob (Harvester Press £10.50) Bloodless and respectable in its time, the Whig Revolution, of 1688 kicks up......

Witty

Francis King The Little Magazines Ian Hamilton (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.95) The 'little magazine' of yesterday could best be defined as a publication in which magnitude of......

Suburban

Ian Bradley Asquith Stephen Koss (Allen Lane £6.95) ‘\ Mqved by one or two near-disasters on a car journey from the Kent coast to London in 1916 to reflect on the likely......