10 SEPTEMBER 1965, page 25

How The North Was Won

THE last great work executed in Britain by navvies, says Mr. Coleman, was the Settle and Carlisle railway line, finished in 1875 after six years' hard. The Victoria Line, now......

Poet, In Action

As readers of Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago will remember, the novel ends with twenty-five short poems which are put forward as the work of the central character, Dr. Zhivago him-......

The Go-between

The Merchant of Revolution : The Life of • Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus) 1867- ALEXANDER ISRAEL HELPHAND, the mad 'be- hind the pen-name `Parvus,' revolutionary activist......