21 DECEMBER 1985, page 53

A Crucial Aspect Of The Past Restored

Edward Norman ENGLISH SOCIETY 1688-1832: IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND POLITICAL PRACTICE DURING THE ANCIEN REGIME by J.C.D. Clark CUP, BD, f10.95 T here recently appeared, on......

A Christmas Poem

To have believed the impossible to imagine! A god who turned himself into a son And implanted himself on our planet to rescue us: So ludicrous a dream, so grandiose Could not......

Intimate But Unreachable

Hugh Cecil THE LAUGHTER AND THE URN: THE LIFE OF REX WHISTLER by Laurence Whistler Weidenfeld & Nicotson, £14.95 R ex Whistler was one of the most versatile British artists of......