24 MAY 1963, Page 8

How to provide the historical informatio n which the ordinary reader

will not keep in his head, and for which Mr. FitzGibbon's earlier writings have so well equipped him? There are monologues from characters apparently en- dowed with a visionary perspective into history as remarkable as that of the witches in Macbeth: and to round them off, packinalot paragraphs 01 summary, i.e.

Scene: in a suffragette's garden.

. What is your news, Mrs. P?'