17 APRIL 1982, page 20

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Peter Quennell Mortimer Wheeler: Adventurer to Archaeology Jacquetta Hawkes (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £10.95) I n the fi rst sentence of her new book ivlis s . Jacquetta Hawkes......

Fortasse Quod Londiniensis Sum...

Michael Wharton T he late Dr John Morris is probably best known to general readers for his Age of Arthur (1973), a splendid book which gives the gist of what is known about the......

Homer Illumined

Peter Levi 1 -1 olin Macloed died young, by suicide, a few days before last Christmas. He was the classical tutor at Christ Church, and a mature scholar. Indeed he was the most......

This Week's Contributors Peter Levi, Poet And Novelist,...

translator of Pausanias. Peter Quennell's many books include biographies of Ruskin, Pope and Byron. Harriet Waugh's most recent novel is Mother's Footsteps.......