20 DECEMBER 1975, page 19

True Romance

Kenneth Griffith The French Colonel. Villebois-Mareui/ and the Boers, 1899-1900 Roy Macnab (Oxford £10.50) 'During September 1899 Jan Smuts, then a vetY youthful State Attorney......

Magic Kingdom

Philip Mason Culture Abdul Halim Sharar; translated by E. S. Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Harcourt and Fakhir Husain (Elek 02.50) Lucknow was the capital of Oudh (more......