10 AUGUST 1985, page 24

Garden Olympics

In the urn a torch has lit the busy-lizzie. Officious pigeons start some vague proceedings. The crowded, brightly-hatted nasturtium audience Raises green parasols against the......

A Dog-lover Thrown To The Wolves

Allan Massie MARTHE: A WOMAN AND HER FAMILY: A FIN-DE-SIECLE CORRESPONDENCE translated by Donald M. Frame Viking, f12.95 M arthe is a collection of letters which, without art......

Cultural Conscience Of The Rich

Duncan Fallowell CONVERSATIONS WITH CAPOTE by Lawrence Grobel Hutchinson, L10.95 I n this embattled world the homosexual has increasingly taken on the full-time job of being......