17 APRIL 1976, page 20

Past Masters

Robert Blake Peel Norman Gash (Longman £6.25) S ir Robert Walpole Betty Kemp Meidenfeld and Nicolson £4.25) Lord North Peter D. G. Thomas (Allen Lane 26.00) C astlereagh John W.......

Spring Crimes

Patrick Cosg rave As must be the case nowadays in three out of four reviews, I have to start with the women. Michele B. Slung's Crime on Her Mind, a collection of early stories......

In The Soup

Duncan Fallowell Snow and Roses Lettice Cooper (Gollancz £3.95) Wild Grow The Lilies Christy Brown (Seeker and Warburg £3.90) Ah, poetry at Oxford, a villa in the Chianti Hills,......