29 JANUARY 1965, page 22

Before Cortez

ALTHOUGH nearly half a millennium has passed since Columbus, looking for India, found America, there are still few Europeans who have any clear knowledge of the civilisations of......

Ends Of The Earth

Edward Lear in Southern Italy. Introduction to and Windus, 21s.) MR. FINER's introduction to Greece has several v virtues, but they are of the sort that demands ao Ba r......

Anglo-saxon Attitudes

Miss KLEIN'S modest plurals and the sheer size of her book are both encouraging. An enormous volume of work has been done on various aspects of English social life in the last......