12 SEPTEMBER 1958, page 27

Doom-crimson

WI-u.:tv the mass of the people no longer wants the liberty which the middle classes won for it, then through the neglected forms of free politics Caesars come. Mr. de Riencourt......

Sweet Thames

London's Riverside: Past, Present and Future. By Eric de Marc. (Reinhardt, 30s.) THERE are still those who sniff, in more senses than one, at French domestic plumbing. But......

Long And Late

The Late Augustans, Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century. Edited with an intro- duction and notes by Donald Davie. (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) THE poetry written between the......