12 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 20

Books Of The Week

A Hero and History Lord Chatham : A War Minister in the Making. By 0. A. Sherrard. (Bodley Head. 25s.) WHAT a magnet has Chatham been for the assayers, or what a blazing light......

Miss Brawne, Mrs. Lindon

Fanny Brawne. By Joanna Richardson. (Thames and Hudson. 15s.) WHEN the son of Fanny Brawne, who became Mrs. Louis Lindon, was &Sired to sanction some publications concerning......

In Next Week's " Spectator " Laurence Irving Discusses A

new book on the Lyceum Theatre; Peter Fleming reviews "Golden Earth" by Norman Lewis; Andrew Young writes on "A Book of Flowers" compiled by Edith Sitwell; and Michael Sadleir......