6 MAY 1960, page 25

James's Fools

The Comic Sense of Henry James. By Richard Poirer. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) RICHARD. POIRER quotes, in his first chapter, a passage from James's Preface to The Spoils of......

New Woman

Nancy Astor. By Maurice Collis. (Faber, Ns.) THIS is a collection of anecdotes, impressions , reminiscences contributed by Lady Astor her- self, by her servants and by her......