23 OCTOBER 1976, page 32

Flummery

Peter Ackroyd Yeats Frank Tuohy (Macmillan £6.95) Biography is a substitute in this country for critical thought. If it is done at all, it should be done quickly. Unfortunately,......

Oiling Up

Auberon Waugh Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster Clive James' illustrated by Marc (Cape £1.95) On the seventy-fourth page of Clive James' s latest......