28 OCTOBER 1966, page 29

Shadow And The Substance

Wide Sargasso Sea. By Jean Rhys. (Deutsch, 21s.) THE once beautiful, insane Creole wife of Mr Rochester was first introduced into the pages of English fiction by Charlotte......

Prince Of Opportunists?

By ROBERT RHODES JAMES F EW politicians in modern British history have aroused such intense feelings through- out their career as Joseph Chamberlain did. And although he has......