23 JANUARY 1988, page 37

A Nest Of Priests

Francis King THE ABBE TIGRANE by Ferdinand Fabre, translated by Robert Liddell Peter Owen, £10.95 A lthough enthusiastically admired first by Walter Pater and then by Edmund......

A First Stab At The Rich

David Profumo A CASE OF KNIVES by Candia McWilliam Bloomsbury, £12.95 F ord Madox Ford once described in It Was the Nightingale how he could not begin a scene in a novel before......