10 APRIL 1982, page 22

A House Of Good Observance

Scanning the morning 'paper, Chewing his bacon and bread, `Says here it's Maundy Thursday, — What's that?' he said. `Don't know. But something about, The Queen and giving money......

Soul-searching

Lewis Jones The Dean's December Saul Bellow (Alison Press/Secker & Warburg £7.95) S aul Bellow's heroes are commonly prophets, and Chicago their wilderness. The Dean looks the......

Thin Ice

Francis King The Skating Party Marina Warner (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £6.95) rr he river Floe, which one assumes really 1. to be the Cam, has frozen over and a middle - aged......