2 AUGUST 1963, page 23

Study In Black

Amateur Agent. By Ewan Butler. (Harrap, 21s.) Was prepared for almost anything that bleak afternoon of February, 1941, when for the first time I visited Woburn Abbey. The Abbey......

Fan Fare

The Blue Lantern was Colette's last major work, published when she was seventy-live, a kind of journal full of reminiscences. She begins seri- ously, almost philosophically,......