15 DECEMBER 1961, page 22

Season In Hell

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Planta- tion, 1838-39. By Frances Anne Kemble. Edited by John A. Scott. (Cape, 36s.) THE introduction of an American `candid out- sider'......

Malta Preserved

FAILING in mind and hampered by paralysis, the aged Walter Scott visited Valletta for the first time shortly before his death. The subject of a last romance, The Siege of Malta,......