11 JULY 1958, page 25

Albany

Peace in Piccadilly. By Sheila Birkenhead. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) LADY BIRKENHEAD deserves to be congratulated upon this admirable history of what the cog- noscenti, so I......

Gentle Savage

THIS book has told me, among other things, why Yeats thought it evidently desirable that he might `. . . dine at journey's end/With Landor and with Donne.' In the poem from......

And The Silliest

The Prettiest Girl in England. The Love Story of Mrs. Fitzherbert's Niece from Journals Edited by Richard Buckle. (John Murray, THIS is the diary, written in 1832, of a charm-......