10 FEBRUARY 1956, page 22

Gurkha Soldier

BUGLES AND A TIGER. By John Masters. (Michael Joseph, 16s.) 'IN England I had tried to ape the fashionable ignorance of India, but now already I found myself resisting England's......

Hungarian Threnody

THE MEMOIRS OF MICHAEL KAROLYI. (Jonathan Cape, 35s.) MEMOIRS. By Admiral Nicholas Horthy. (Hutchinson, 21s.) BUT for the war most of us would look on Admiral Horthy as the head......

Proust At The Ball

'I WAS happily sitting with my partner on the gilded chairs tied together with his handkerchief as was the fashion, when I saw a strange sight. Here was Marcel Proust crossing......