15 NOVEMBER 1969, page 16

Our Noble Selves

PAT BARR The British in the Far East George Wood- cock (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 70s) The China Helpers Jonathan Spence (Bod- ley Head 45s) When Kipling first travelled to the......

Totus Porcus

OLIVER WARNER First Sea Lord: An Authorised Biography of Admiral Lord Fisher Richard Hough (Allen and Unwin 75s) Fisher was an explosion. The whole hog— touts porcus as he used......