17 DECEMBER 1948, page 20

The Liber Amoris

Is the coup de foudre a Romantic invention ? How often does one human being, at first sight of another, perceive a fatal affinity? Less often perhaps than the Romantics......

Classics For Christmas

THE Trollope revival of the nineteen-forties can partly be attributed to the war, for Trollope's plump upholstered world, with its super- ficial values and contented, sensible......

Travelling Tediously

Spanish Journey. By Halliday Sutherland. (Hollis and Carter. 15s.) IT probably would not please Dr. Sutherland to be told that he is just the kind of tourist approved of by Mme.......