11 OCTOBER 1969, page 17

Stan Of The People

IAIN MACLEOD, MP Baldwin Keith Middlemas and John Barnes (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 105s) . Between the two world wars three Con- servatives, Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, and......

Beyond The Pale

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH Ada Vladimir Nabokov (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 42s) If Nabokov does not quite attain the status of a major novelist--his 'greatness', in this sense, being......