17 JULY 1982, page 23

A Lost Lady

Simon Blow T hea Kronborg is a settler child of the American West. Moonstone, her home - Town, lies far south, in Colorado, and is lapped by desert plains. The inhabitants are......

Sympneuma

David Williams N o biographer of Laurence Oliphant could ever conceivably be gravelled for lack of matter. He was an outstanding 19th- century weirdo, one of the wildest, most......