20 SEPTEMBER 1963, page 26

His Eminence

SIR HENRY LAYARD would not be gratified to find himself numbered among the minor figures of nineteenth-century history, but this must be the classification that he merits. He......

Depression Session

THIS has been a depressing week's reading, not because the quality of the four books under re- view is poor—on the contrary, all are good— but the mood engendered by them is one......