24 MARCH 1984, page 30

A Man Of Gusto

Allan Massie Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic David Bromwich (OUP/New York £19.50) W ho now reads Hazlitt? To whom, except A-Level students or under- graduates assigned his essays......

Black Nightingale

Roy Kerridge Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole Edited by Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee (Falling Wall Press £7,50) w onderful indeed are the true......