7 DECEMBER 1956, Page 5

A Spectator Miscellany

Spectrum, a Miscellany edited by Ian Gilmour and lain Hamilton, and published by Longmans at 16s., contains a large selection of features and articles which appeared in the Spectator during 1955. by Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Randolph Churchill, Lord Hai'sham, Pharos, Strix, Evelyn Waugh, and many other contributors, regular and occasional.