13 MAY 1960, page 24

Down And Out In The Vicarage

A Clergyman's Daughter. By George Orwell, (Secker and Warburg, 18s.) SOMETHING odd happens to Orwell's novel on page ninety-six. After a leisurely opening that takes Dorothy,......

The Trouble With Haldane

LORD HALDANE was described by Haig as 'the greatest Secretary of State for War England has ever had,' and by Lloyd George as 'the most confusing clever man I have ever known.'......