20 MARCH 1982, page 19

Queenie And The Gay Life

A. N. Wilson I t is hard to take 'literary editors' seriously. Many of them are not really editors, and precious few are notably literary. Publishers send them the books.......

The End Of An Era

Arthur Marshall W hich would be your choice of year if some magic wand or Wellsian time contraption could waft a historian back- wards through the ages to provide you with a......

Books Wanted

EULOGY OF JUDGES by Calamandrei. D. W. Dare, 10 Charlotte Rd, London SW13 9QJ. THE SPEECH CHOIR by Marjorie Gullan, 248 pages, published by Harper & Bros, New York about 1937.......