21 DECEMBER 1985, page 47

Single Footprints

Saturday night outsider looking in through lighted windows couples on sofas, children playing sharing worlds. Sunday morning, a closed shell; blind windows staring. Isolation as......

Inner Cities But No Real Centre

Christopher Booker CITIES AND PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY by Mark Girouard Yale University Press, L16.95 W hen Lewis Mumford published his masterly book The City......

A Perverse,

neurotic fantasist Peter Quennell JONATHAN SWIFT, A HYPOCRITE REVERSED by David Nokes OUP, £14.95 A lthough rarely troubled by readers and biographers today, Sir William Tem-......