0 What A Tangled Webb They Weave
John Grigg THE NEW STATESMAN: PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL WEEKLY, 1913-1931 by Adrian Smith Frank Cass, £35, pp.272 B y 1913 Beatrice and Sidney Webb had been forced to conclude......
But An Evening Gone
Nigel Spivey ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM by Conor Cruise O'Brien Free Press, £7.99, pp. 168 B lame the ancient Etruscans. Their priesthood concocted the doctrine of cycli- cal......
Too Many Tales Of The City
Charles Allen A FINE BALANCE by Rohinton Mistry Faber, £15.99, pp. 614 I once froze the smiles of a roomful of New York socialites at an English- Speaking Union lecture by......
Problems Of Approach
Hail Mary — icon, person, metaphor I pray to you the only way I know a twisty poet, not an upright man. Lighthouse of hope, star of the sheeny sea whether as image or as holy......