25 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 51

Flight Of The Enchanter

Raymond Carr IRIS AND THE FRIENDS by John Bayley Duckworth, £16.95, pp. 200 T his book has a misleading title. It is not primarily about Iris Murdoch, the pop- ular novelist,......

Why Did He Leave Out E. M. Forster?

Bevis Hillier THE PENGUIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ESSAYS selected by Ian Hamilton Allen Lane, £20, pp. 555 I agreed, by telephone, to review this book, and before it arrived......