6 JUNE 1958, page 24

Unpopular Journalism

The Angry Decade. By Kenneth Allsop. (Peter Owen, Ms.) MR. KENNETH ALLSOP is a journalist—which is something of a dirty word in intellectual circles today. It suggests a smart,......

On Being Insulted By A Popular Journalist

So this is how it stands : a lout Can hawk, and gather up his phlegm And, grinning, spit it in my face As I walk by; and all without . The fear of censure or disgrace. His......

Traveller Of Feeling

Letters of a Russian Traveller 1789-1790. By N. M. Karamzin. Translated and abridged by Florence Jonas. (O.U.P., 30s.) POOR Karamzin! He set out with the most fright- ful......