Janet Adam Smith

John Buchan was later to crown a career of distinguished public service when he became Governor-General of Canada and first Baron Tweedsmuir. For the moment he was an outsider in London high society, and the...

The volume was praised by Humbert Wolfe and Janet Adam Smith , but called by the Times Literary Supplementoften extremely difficult and occasionally annoying in its word play, shifting meanings, and free association. Geoffrey Grigson

Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...