3 APRIL 1993, page 30

Gloom From Over The Dark Broad Seas

Nigel Spivey THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE by David Selbourne Sinclair-Stevenson, £20, pp. 388 T his is an alternative, Jewish history of our times.' The author's opening decla- ration......

Fair And Foul Play

Zenga Longmore THE PEOPLE IN THE PLAYGROUND by Iona Opie OUP, £15, pp. 250 A fter dropping my child at nursery the other day, I accidently found myself in the junior-school......