13 MARCH 1953, page 22

The Cult Of Sincerity

APART from the extended essays on Shelley and Byron, In Defence of Shelley, written in 1936 to defend Shelley against Mr. Eliot, and Byron published in 1951 as a supplement to......

A Political Satirist

&tom/talus is something of a phenomenon in contemporary journalism. He (or should it be she?) is not merely the most accomp- lished satirist now writing political verse in......

In Next Week's "spectator" Mervyn Horder Will Review...

Indian Journal" edited by Ray Murphy; Richard Chancellor 'Journey for our Time," a new -edition of the Journals of the Marquis de Custine; and Maurice Craig "The Wildes of......

Scotland Two Centuries Ago

The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. By Marjorie Plant. (Edinburgh University Press. 25s.) THE most casual student of the eighteenth century in Scotland must......