29 DECEMBER 1967, page 15

Echo De Paris

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Robert de Montesquiou : a Prince of the Nineties Philippe Jullian translated by John Haylock and Francis King (Seeker and War- burg 63s) There was more to......

Creaking Springs

JOHN HOLLOWAY . . tell me then, whether the above, and the below, and the middle, all exist in nature?' 'They exist.' `And is your book about the first of these, or the second,......

On The Hoof Lk

PETER VANSITTART The Age of the Grand Tour Anthony Burgess, Francis Haskell and Francis Watson (Elek £8 8s) If read on public transport this rectangular, uncomfortable volume......