6 JULY 1956, page 27

The Squirearchy

BY CHRISTOPHER HILL T HE English squirearchy, Dr. Wingfield-Stratford tells us,* brings out the worst prejudices of .historians. Senti- mentalists treat "the old English squire"......

Novelistic Pleiad

THE GERMAN NOVEL : STUDIES. By Roy Pascal. (Manchester University Press, 30s.) EXCEPT for Werther, with its seedy sentiment and brilliant self- pity, and Wilhelm Meister, that......