21 DECEMBER 1985, page 54

A Crucial Aspect Of The Past Restored

Edward Norman ENGLISH SOCIETY 1688-1832: IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND POLITICAL PRACTICE DURING THE ANCIEN REGIME by J.C.D. Clark CUP, BD, f10.95 T here recently appeared, on......

Moving To Winter

As I move, through autumn to winter, my life's house Is Edmund Waller's cottage of the soul. How chill, how pure, eternity shines through the chinks! Yet, while my fire still......

One And One Make Only Just Enough

Max Hastings SOMERVILLE AND ROSS: THE WORLD OF THE IRISH RM by Gifford Lewis Viking, £12.95 T he English conviction that the Irish are liars is founded upon our false expecta-......