5 DECEMBER 1970, page 26

Panoptic Vision

GRAHAM HOUGH The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society Northrop Frye (Methuen 60s) Since the Eliot-Richards-Leavis-Empson explosion in the earlier part of the......

Central Figure

NORMAN GASH Palmerston Jasper Ridley (Constable 63s) -or Mr Ridley's new biography of Palmerston has two great merits. It is the first to make systematic use of the Broadlands......

Myrdal's End

JOHN WOOD The Challenge of World Poverty Gunnar Myrdal (Allen Lane The Penguin Press 84s) Unable to express himself fully in his mam- moth three volume 11 million word Asian......