16 AUGUST 1957, page 22

Giants And Scholars

Gogmagog: The Buried Gods. By T. C. Leth- bridge. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 21s.) IN the eighteenth century the figure of a giant cut in the turf, either inside Wandlebury Camp......

Bloody Heroes

DURING a brief visit to a battlefield in the winter of 1944 I saw three things which moved me rather less at the time than they did later in retrospect, and which I did not......

Self-portraits

UNLIKE most painters Mr. Trevelyan is lost when he writes. There is in his book none of the pre° . sion and originality in writing which often go es with the manual skill of his......