17 APRIL 1953, Page 26

In next week's "Spectator" Professor J. B. Black will review

"Elizabeth I and her Parliaments, 1559 - 1581" by J. E. Neale; Max Beloff the third and last volume of "The Bolshevik Revolution" by E. H. Carr; and E. T. Williams "The Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee," edited by George Bennett. John Hampson contributes an appreciation of Forrest Reid, the subject of a recent book by Russell Burlingham.