14 FEBRUARY 1969, page 18

Shallow As England

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER The Unfinished Hero and other essays Ronald Bryden (Faber 36s) `Even more so is the double-bill I caught on the way back from Manchester, at the Victoria,......

Old Chums

ROBERT BLAKE Lord Acton and His Times David Mathew (Eyre and Spottiswoode 70s) John Morley, Liberal Intellectual in Politics D. A. Hamer (our 65s) As Gladstone moved into what......