3 OCTOBER 1952, page 29

Three Diversions

One-Upmanship. By Stephen Potter. (Hart-Davis. 8s. 6d.) Shakespeare and Myself. By George Mikes. (Wingate. 8s. 6d.) THERE are two great levellers: death and ridicule. For no man......

Eighteenth-century Letters

THE two latest volumes in the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, which continues its stately but increasingly expensive Progress under Mr. W. S. Lewis's......