12 MAY 1973, page 15

Review Of Books

Reginald Maudling on the complexity of lain Macleod Mr Nigel Fisher has written an excellent book. t It must have been a very difficult task to undertake, and sad one at that.......

Nabokov In Switzerland

Martin A m is Tnansparent Things Vladimir Nabokov . (Weiclenfeld and Nicolson £1.75) The qualities for which Nabokov is most often praised seem to me to be among the least......