9 JULY 1942, page 18

Two Brahmins

IT was Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder who found the pr descriptive term for the hereditary learned class of Boston. Th were the Brahmins soaked in books and controversy from......

Victorian Vivacity

IF Civil Defence's distinction between Light and Heavy Rescue parties could be applied to those who salvage the past, Sir Edmund Chambers would, of course, hold honourable rank......

A Scholar's Climb

A Cornish Childhood. By A. L. Rowse. (Cape. us. 6d.) MR. ROWSE has produced a strange mélange. All autobiograp are necessarily in some degree egocentric and self-revelatory.......