16 JANUARY 1988, page 30

Things Past And Things Passed On

Anita Brookner THE MESSIAH OF STOCKHOLM by Cynthia Ozick Andre Deutsch, £9.95 L ars Andemening, his name picked out of a dictionary, is a book reviewer on a Stockholm newspaper.......

A Man For All Seas

Richard 01lard HORATIO NELSON by Tom Pocock Bodley Head, f15 T he period of Nelson's fame can only be the end of time'. The majesty of Sheridan's epitaph still seems both......