12 MAY 1973, page 18

P Olished Pebbles

Richard Eales The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik George Steiner (Faber 0.40) The 1972 World Championship chess match between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky already......

Shorter Notices

Polybius F. W. Walbank (University of California Press £4.05) Polybius was the first man to unite political science and history. A Greek Romanophile of the second century BC, he......

Bookend

Bookbuyer Bookbuyer, not always the first to applaud publishers, who are often too busy applauding themselves, would like to make an exception for a little-known Leicester......