3 NOVEMBER 1979, page 24

Demi-mondaine

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd My Blue Notebooks Liane de Pougy (Deutsch £7.50) Liane de Pougy was a famous courtesan of the belle époque, but, though there is some fairly fruity......

Mccarthyism

Francis King Cannibals and Missionaries Mary McCarthy (Weidenfeld £5.95) The other evening I put a problem to a group of dinner-guests, the majority of whom were writers. It was......