15 MAY 1976, page 24

Collector's Items

Benny Green Wisden's Cricketers' Almanac (Sporting Handbooks £3.00) To attempt to review Wisden would be an impertinence, so I will merely record the arrival of the one hundred......

Forlorn Hope

A. L. Rowse The Protestant Duke: A Life of Monmouth Violet Wyndham (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.95) Many years ago I was lucky enough to penetrate the most exquisite house in......

Timeless

Simon Courtauld Gallipot Eyes Elspeth Huxley (Weiden feld and Nicolson £4.25) I played cricket at Oaksey last summer. It was a timeless occasion—the weather and the tea were......