3 OCTOBER 1992, page 29

Bright And Fierce And Fickle

Frances Partridge BERTRAND RUSSELL: A LIFE by Caroline Moorehead Sinclair-Stevenson, £20, pp. 596 T ree passions, simple but over- whelmingly strong, have governed my life',......

Seeming Truth Which Cunning Time Put On

Peter Levi SHYLOCK by John Gross Chatto, £18, pp. 355 T he Merchant of Venice was a play set for some exam in about 1944 or 1945, and my mother took me to see it with Donald......