5 JUNE 1982, page 24

Paradiso

Harold Acton `I Todd qui est bien!' as the Spectator's V bilingual reviewer might exclaim, quoting that famous Parisian hostess Madame Geoffrin. The subject of Italy will never......

An Album Of Odds And Ends

Allan Massie The Strangers All are Gone Anthony Powell (Heinemann £9.50) A nthony Powell has always tended to puzzle even while he delights. Wodehouse once said: 'It's......

This Week's Contributors

Paul Johnson is the author of Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration. T. S. Matthews, poet and journalist, is a former editor of Time. His many books include Under the......