10 APRIL 1971, page 26

Germaine Greer On Wit And Witlessness

A Month of Sundays Dorothy Parker (Mac- millan £2.10) Why is it that fatuity has such power to survive and spread when excellence has long since leapt off into the void? Why is......

Michael Black On Printing History

Anatomy of Printing: The Influences of Art and History on its Design John Lewis (Faber £10.00) Mr Lewis is a book-designer and lecturer in typography. His best-known previous......

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1970 are now available and may be obtained, price 50p post free, from the Sales Manager, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, Lon- don wcl. Copies of most of the pre- vious indexes......