20 MAY 1949, page 34

Shorter Notices

Diplomat in Peace and War. By Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. (John Murray. 18s.) EVERY professional diplomat ought to have a tale to tell worth telling, but by no means all are......

Keats, Shelley And Rome. Compiled By Neville Rogers....

7s. 6d.) I'm royalties from the sale of this attractive little miscellany of seventy-five pages are to be given to the Keats-Shelley Memorial in Rome, which alone is sufficient......

Fiction

A Clouded Star. By Anne Parrish. (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) WE are, quite rightly, continually repeating that the proper business of Literature is Life. We cannot then complain if,......