23 MARCH 1974, page 21

Time On Our Hands

Jonathan Raban The Private Future Martin Pawley (Thames and Hudson £2.75) It's a soft job, being a prophet. Unlike the present and the past, the future has a totali tarian......

The Magic Castle

Elizabeth Jenkins Windsor Castle In The History of the Nation A. L. Rowse (Weidenfeld and Nicholson £3.95) Or Rowse speaks in this book of the "informed imagination"; that is......