17 JUNE 2000, page 49

That Damned Elusive Pimpernel

M. R. D. Foot SECRET SERVICE by Elizabeth Sparrow Boyden, £25, pp. 459 o r years, the Public Record Office used to say — it would be interesting to know whether tongue-in-cheek......

Pursued By The Furies

Jane Gardam THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth Cape, £16.99, pp. 400 W hat ish my nation?' asks the drunken, disillusioned Macmorris in Henry V after Agincourt. `Ish a villain and a......