22 DECEMBER 1950, page 22

American Politics

IN a famous passage in The American Commonwealth Bryce voiced the perplexity of Europeans at the nature of American political parties. Seventy years later Europeans are still......

Two Who Got Out

Why I Escaped. By Peter Pirogov. (Harvill Press. I as. 6d.) IN 1839 the Marquis de Custine published some observations o n his travels through the Imperial Russia of Nicholas I,......

Some French Novelists

The Novel in France. By Martin Turnell. (Hamish Hamilton. ,z8s.) " Adolphe," says Mr. Turnell, of one of the eight novels here sub- jected to the burning glass of his......