17 MARCH 1973, page 12

Spark Plug

Auberon Waugh The Hothouse by the East River Muriel Spark (Macmillan £1.95) The Stockbroker, the Bitter Young Man and the Beautiful Girl Alfred Hayes (Gollancz £2.00) As I......

Wilsonian View

Nicholas Richardson A Window on Russia Edmund Wilson (Macmillan 0.50) Pushkin was still under thirty when Tolstoy was born, Pasternak already twenty when the old man died.......