28 JUNE 1957, page 24

The Pretender's Lot

Arbella Stuart. By P. •M. Handover. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 308.) LOOKING back from our relatively republican state of mind today, few fates can appear more uncomfortable than......

A Supernatural Windfall A Time To Keep Silence. By Patrick

Leigh Fermor. (John Murray, 15s.) THIS book, short though it is, divides itself, Gaul- like, into three parts. There is a chapter on the deserted Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia.......

Particles Of Light

LEFT to themselves Keats's devotees would blight the reading of his verse with doctrines and superlatives. The trouble with so many of them, as critics, is that they shut......