15 JULY 1955, page 24

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......

France Since 1945

EVERY Edwation Officer knows who is 'the sick man of Europe'; there are now as many guides to French politics as there are to French cathedral cities, and after Goguel,......

The Dark Side

BAVARIAN FANTASY: THE STORY OF LUDWIG II. By Desmond Chapman-Huston. Edited by Osyth Leeston. (Murray, 25s.) To those with the romantic temperament Ludwig II will always be an......