28 FEBRUARY 1958, page 20

Dynamic Provincialism

IT would be instructive to chart the varying status of the 'provincial.' The medieval provinces were as powerful and creative as the capital : later, one man armed with only a......

Insiders

The Search for Good Sense. By F. L. Lucas. (Cassell, 25s.) MR. LUCAS has picked four eighteenth-centurY characters : Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith. Mr. Lucas sees......