14 NOVEMBER 1970, page 26

Vanilla Slices

AUBERON WAUGH A Place in England Melvyn Bragg (Seeker and Warburg 36s) Nobody should sit down to write about the pre-war English working class without first having read Max......

No Lost Faith

STORM JAMESON Images and Shadows Iris Origo (John Murray 60s) A first reading of Iris Origo's autobiography is like looking closely at a fifteenth-century tapestry : the first......

Biased Penguins

ANGUS MAUDE MP Letter to a Teacher The School of Barbiana (Penguin Education Special 8s) I hope I am not alone in being thoroughly alarmed by the editorial policies of Penguin......