10 NOVEMBER 1967, page 20

The Politics Of The European Communist

Inside the apparat S. E. FINER faut une volontd unie' wrote Robespierre in his camel: and in 1921 Lenin echoed him in proclaiming 'the opposition's time has run out . . . we......

Shorter Notices

A Second Hand Life Charles Jackson (W. H. Allen 30s). Nineteen years since The Lost Weekend, Jackson's authoritative portrait of an alcoholic, but this routine study of a......

New Novels

Time_ for decision GEORGE CLIVE A Tree on Fire Alan Sillitoe (Macmillan , 300 The Dolly Dolly Spy Adam Diment (Michael Joseph 21s) - Don't Look at Me Like That Diana Athill......