10 SEPTEMBER 1983, page 15

A Glasgow Festival?

Allan Massie Edinburgh dinburgh is a very odd city. I can't think of an odder. Not even Florence so curiously combines old splen- dour and new mean complacency, though I suppose......

Remembering Ortega

Harry Eyres T hisyear, which is the centenary of Marx's death, is the centenary also of the birth of the Spanish thinker Jose Ortega y Gasset. It is doubtful whether he himself......