12 JUNE 1959, page 35

Extensive Beer

The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830. By Peter Mathias. (C.U.P., 85s.) IT is time to boast a little; time to blow one's own trumpet, for in this harsh and hard world no......

Fin De Siecle

The Child of Montmartre is a trio of autobio- graphical sketches first published in the early 1900s and not properly a novel at all, though some sort of mild fictionising has......

Lilithographs

Loathsome Women. By Leopold Stein and Martha Alexander. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) Or else I thought her supernatural; As though a sterner eye looked through her eye At......