20 OCTOBER 1967, page 15

Sunset At Edfu

ALAN ROSS A sunset at first so pale it's hardly there—• Merely a suffusion of pink over sandstone, A faint flushing of the wake— Then the egrets, as exact in formation As......

East-west Axis

ART BOOKS FRANCIS WATSON To come across the signature of Bernard Leach among the current artbookware tweaks the antennae. Just so, one feels, did a recent visitor to an......

People's Choice?

RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL The Selectorate Peter Paterson (MacGibbon and Kee 42s) Until the early 'fifties the large majority of the safe Conservative seats in England—say 150— were......