26 MARCH 1977, page 21

The New Learning

Jonathan Benthall The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages Jean Gimpel (Gollancz £7.50) The Nature of Science: The History of Science in Western......

Thin Solution

Rayner Heppenstall Conan Doyle: A Biographical Solution Ronald Pearsall (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.95) I wonder whether the Baker Street irregulars and other Sherlock Holmes......

Otherwise Engaged

Nick Totton Memoirs Pablo Neruda (Souvenir £6.50) Perhaps our language's exceptionally large vocabulary is a factor in the deep estrangement of English poetry from the English......