22 JULY 1972, page 19

Letters From The Golden Age

Bernard Shaw In 1898, Bernard Shaw was forty-two years old, and although he was the author of five novels and eight plays, his literary career had hardly begun. To Shaw, it must......

Bookend

Bookbuyer Turnstone (Turnstile? Touchstone?) is a new publishing house formed by Alick Bartholomew, "at the immature age of forty-two," he says, to publish books providing......