15 JULY 1955, page 23

Books

The Shakespearean Theme BY JOHN WAIN S HAKESPEARE'S tragedies are worked out- by means of the psychology of individual characters; nowadays one is not allowed to go in for......

Two Countries

THE GLORY OF EGYPT. By Samivel. With photographs by Michel Audrain. (Thames and Hudson, 42s.) EGYPT has filled the museums of the world with fragments of a civilisation that......

Politics In The Coffee Room

A FEW weeks ago the demolition squads moved in to tear down the bomb-scarred walls of the old Carlton Club in Pall Mall, and this citadel of Victorian toryism will soon be no......