24 MAY 1968, page 16

Dour Demotic

IAIN CRICHTON-SMITH This is volume two of the collected stories of Fred Urquhart and contains twelve pieces, one or two of only five pages or so and the last one of over forty......

Cardinal Sins

PETER VANSITTART Richelieu D. P. O'Connell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 63s) The seventeenth century, though of Mongol ferocity, was in essence a movement towards reason and order.......

Scourge Of The Thugs

J. ENOCH POWELL As I write, I see on the shelf in front of me a dumpy book, with covers sun-bleached, worn and gnawed by cockroaches. It is William Sleeman's Rambles and......