16 MAY 1987, page 30

Mad, Sad And Unworthily Known

J. G. Links THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN RUSKIN AND CHARLES ELIOT NORTON edited by John Lewis Bradley and Ian Ousby CUP, £45 T he people by whom you are sur- rounded are not......

Morning's At Seven

We breakfast with a peaty Irish voice And think of those young men, scarce more than boys, Imprisoned in the Maze for so-called crimes, Severing so-called legs and so-called......

In Search Of A Good Bad Book

Anne Chisholm DESTINY by Sally Beauman Bantam, £10.95 REGRETS ONLY by Sally Quinn Headline, fl 1 .95 A few hours' oblivion in the pages of a good bad book can be one of the......