20 FEBRUARY 1971, page 18

Percival Spear On Linlithgow

It was certainly time someone spoke up for Lord Linlithgow. Since Wavell was a wartime and winding-up ruler and Lord Mountbatten a coroneted undertaker, he was in fact the last......

Auberon Waugh On The Music Of Time

In Oslo (or so I have been told) there is a huge park, arranged in great avenues of giant statues, all nude, cold and capering in tlfe brumous air. Every day, coachloads of......

Peter Linehan On Dr Elliott's Lectures

The Old World and the New, 1492.1650 I, H . Elliott (cup paperback 60p) br Elliott is a leading authority on the his- tory of early modern Europe. In The Revolt of the Catalans,......