22 APRIL 1989, page 29

Not Quite A Masterpiece

Francis King WHISTLEJACKET by John Hawkes Secker & Warburg, £11.95, pp.I94 O ne of the finest pictures at Went- worth Woodhouse, seat of the Fitzwilliam family, used to be a......

Prejudice And Sensibility

Raymond Carr FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES by A. L. Rowse Methuen, £14.99, pp.297 h is is vintage Rowse. The passion and the prejudices lie naked on the page. Here IS an example.......