31 JANUARY 1987, page 29

A Writer And A Gentleman

John Bayley THE ENCHANTER by Vladimir Nabokov Picador, 1'8.95 N ot many authors insist on their sepa- rate status as gentlemen. A mark of those that do is that any eccentricity......

Growing Dissension At The Court

Joan Plowright THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE by Philip Roberts Routledge and Kegan Paul, £18.95 T hirty or more years ago serious stud- ents of the theatre were still burying their......