7 APRIL 1984, page 27

Crochet Work

Isabel Colegate Strange Inheritance John Colville (Michael Russell £8.95) Three Extraordinary Ambassadors Harold Acton (Thames and Hudson £4.50) O n the 28 August 1839 the......

The Muddle In The Middle

Shirley Robin Letwin John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue Bernard Semmel (Yale University Press £12.95) he truth, as everyone knows, lies always .1 in the middle. And the......

Highly Suspect

Francis King The Suburbs of Hell Randolph Stow (Seeker & Warburg £7.95) R andolph Stow's is so idiosyncratic a talent that it is both surprising and disconcerting to find the......