4 SEPTEMBER 1964, page 26

Namier's Maverick

Charles Towashend. By Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke. (Macmillan, 35s.) SOMETHING in the make-up of Sir Lewis Namier gave a definite character not only to his histori- cal......

Abbaye De Senanque

On the hilltop at Gorde, commandingly surveying a valley, are the houses of an abandoned village: the outward civilised structure contains emptiness. Nearby, the road furtively......

Books

Brutalities of Power By C B. COX I N the past Marlowe has often been depicted as the exuberant Elizabethan humanist, 'still climbing after knowledge infinite'; in recent studies......