6 MARCH 1971, page 15
Ireland
That ragged leaking, raft held between sea and sea its long forgotten cable melting into deeper darkness where, at the root of it, the slow sea circles and chews. Nightly the......
George Holmes On The Avignon Popes
The Avignon Papacy 1305-1403 Yves Renouard translated by Denis Bethell (Faber £2.75) From 1309 to 1376 Avignon, an Otherwise unimportant town on the Rhone, was the seat of the......
Auberon Waugh On Gold In California
The Great American Jackpot Herbert Gold (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £1.75) One great advantage of having a Negro pro- blem in a country is that it produces the most excellent......