6 FEBRUARY 1988, page 30

A Girl From The Prairies

Anne Chisholm WILLA CATHER: A LITERARY LIFE by James Woodress University of Nebraska Press, £33.25 B efore she died, a famous and re- spected novelist, in 1947, Willa Cather......

Midday On The Waves?

John-Francis Phillimore V enetian Evenings comes some 30 years after the same author's Roman Mornings. The antithesis is a bit willed: as James Lees-Milne cheerfully admits,......

Neo-classical Tradition In Germany

Gavin Stamp I t was always my ambition to be the legitimate heir of the Berlin classicists,' recorded Albert Speer in his diary in Spandau prison in 1955, 'and to this day it......