20 JANUARY 1961, page 23

Salacity And Verve

EVEN more remarkable than the tales Casanova has to tell is the fact that he survived to tell them. When he received an invitation from Graf Waldstein to spend his declining......

Walpole's Way

By C. V. WEDGWOOD nt ROBERT WALPOLE, in portly confidence, S looks out from the frontispiece of Dr. Plumb's book.* His official robes are larded with gold braid; the Blue Ribbon......

Goose Girl

THERE is, of course, a notorious class of people in this country who like to think of animals as I nert, to think of the differences as nothing more than touching disabilities.......

The Sailcloth Shroud. By Charles Williams. (cassell, 12s....

three men who sailed a ketch from Panama to the Texas coast, one dies at sea and another is murdered on land. The third is suspected by the police and beaten up by gangsters in......

It's A Crime

The Appin Murder. By Lieut.-General Sir William MacArthur. (JMP Publishing Ser■ ices, 10s. 6d.) A reconsideration, tightly packed with facts, of the murder of Colin Campbell of......