17 MAY 1968, page 20

Sluggish Depths

AUBERON WAUGH The Kennet and Avon Canal Kenneth R. Clew (David and Charles 50s) The Kennet and Avon Canal, finished in 1810, stretches from Bristol to Reading, a distance of......

Stolen Treasure

J. B. DONNE Great Benin : Its Customs, Art and Horrors H. Ling Roth (Routledge 120s) Tribal Masks from Nciprstek Museum, Prague Erich Herold, photographed by Jindrich Marco......

Twentieth Century

D. C. WATT Mr Marwick has already gone a fair way towards establishing himself as one of the lead- ing British social historians; and he has made the twentieth century......