10 NOVEMBER 1973, page 21

Signature In Sand

Jan Morris Philby of Arabia Elizabeth Monroe (Faber £4.50) The son of a colonial philanderer, the father of a communist spy, H. St John Philby spent his life restlessly betwixt......

Master Of The Revels

Beverley Nichols Cowardy Custard Edited by John Hadfield (Heinemann £.75) When this latest tribute to the Master. was announced, my heart sank. Surely the laurels had already......

Bill Platypus's

Paperbacks For those of you who, like Platypus, are tired of the cult of the contemporary, a reissue — after a moratorium of ten years — of the seventh volume of the Pelican......