16 AUGUST 1975, page 18

The Old Tricks Are The Best

Peter Ackroyd Hard Option Gwen Moffat (Gollancz £3.50) A Spider in the Bath John Lymington (Hodder and Stoughton £2.95) 1. - et us all admit, as we shOuld, that the - English......

Talking Of Books

Barrie's ghost Benny Green In the spring of 1891 the smallest journalist in England, finding himself surrounded by Henry Irving one night at the Garrick, tried to turn the......