11 DECEMBER 1953, page 24

Since Columbus

The Bombard Story. By Alain Bombard. (Andre Deutsch. 12s. 6d.) A HISTORY of the twentieth century written two hundred years hence would seem a discouraging project. Already we......

Family Histories

The Brudenells of Deene. By Joan Wake. (Cassell. 21s.) THE great country houses are suffering the fate which overtook the monasteries more than four centuries ago ; and their......

The Poetic Quarry

To deal at all properly with either of these books would need an essay of Macaulayesque dimensions, and a year or so of cogitation. All that can be done here is to give some......