20 MAY 1966, page 20

Wife To Mr Maugham

`Tuts book,' writes Beverley Nichols at the beginning of A Case of Human Bondage, 'is not an attack upon a dead man; rather it is the refutation of a libel upon a dead woman.'......

The Warden's View

Controversial Essays. By John Sparrow. (Faber, 30s.) THE C . essays in this volume make a good collec- tion : they all separately merit their present re- publication; and the......