24 FEBRUARY 1979, page 20

Latinists

Hugh Lloyd-Jones Renaissance Latin Verse: An Anthology compiled by Alessandro Perosa and John Sparrow (Duckworth £12) Victorian romanticism looked down its nose upon the Latin......

Portraits

Benny Green Sinister Street Compton Mackenzie (Macdonald £5.95) The fate of Sinister Street is unique in that its virtues as a novel have been overshadowed by its accidental......