13 JANUARY 1961, page 22

Unflinching Tory

Lord Eldon's Anecdote Book. Edited by A. L. J. Lincoln and R. L. McEwen (Stevens, 25s.) Tint liveliest portrait of Eldon is to be found in The Spirit of the Age, where Hazlitt......

Farewell To The World

The Colossus. By Sylvia Plath. (Heinemann, 15s.) THE book which drew the blaze of world pub- licity on to Boris Pasternak in his last days was a novel; naturally, since this is......

Coloured Shirts And Corduroy

Private History. By Derek Patmore. (Cape, 21s.) 'STANDING there alone in the centre of the darkened stage and dressed as a Teddy Bear I recited my little piece of four lines......