16 OCTOBER 1982, page 23

My Brother Widmerpool

A. N. Wilson Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C. P. Snow Philip Snow (Macmillan £8.95) T wenty years have passed since F. R. Leavis published his notoriously vituperative......

Stylishness

Francis King Constance Laurence Durrell (Faber & Faber £7.95) L aurence Durrell has used the l e 'quincunx' to describe his plan ?„ I. novels, of which this is the third. v - b......