3 DECEMBER 1983, page 31

Gothic Friends

Isabel Colegate The Strawberry Hill Set: Horace Walpole and His Circle Brian Fothergill (Faber & Faber £12.95) A ny mind's eye view of the latter two- thirds of the 18th century......

Mystic Fumes

Harriet Waugh Don Bueno Zulfikar Ghose (Hutchinson £8.95) Z ulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani novelist who now lives in America. His writing is sometimes clumsy and uneasy, almost......