21 NOVEMBER 1958, page 44

Holding The Candle

Louis XIV's court at Versailles won in the seven- teenth century a glamorous reputation as a centre of culture, refinement and good taste, and has retained it since : how this......

Christmas Books

Mr. Wilson's People BY FRANK KERM ODE R. ANGUS WILSON now writes long novels, VI and his latest* seems to be his best, Yet his world remains a small one. To define his area of......

Address To An Undergraduate Society

The Chairman forgets my name. I address iliern. Half male, half female, one clergyman. Few beards. The usual exhibitionist In velvet or what-have-you appears to be absent.......