21 OCTOBER 1960, page 40

Roaming Through Ranelagh

ENGLISH eighteenth-century memoirs are incom- parable, and too little known. Horace Walpole and James Boswell, superb as they are, have rivals. A year or two ago Romney Sidgwick......

Black Laughs

MURIEL SPARK'S g leeful and alarmin g novels are oddities, to put it mildly, and not least in their view of the motives of human speech. Scornin g the widespread notion that......