6 MAY 1966, page 22

Gotterdammerung

The Last Battle. By Cornelius Ryan. (Collins, 45s.) A RECENT issue of The Times Literary Supple- ment, devoted entirely to the writing of history, made a number of very scathing......

A Raven On. The Aerial

BEN JONSON was fleered by some for publishing his stage plays as part of his Works. Perhaps encouraged by the fact that Volpone and The Alchemist have lasted, Mr Raven has dared......

Puffing And Blowing

MY favourite review is George Eliot's 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists': it is a knockout. The fashionable novelists whom she inters deep in the mould of regrettable history......