24 MAY 1957, page 23

New Novels

Far, Far the Mountain Peak. By John Masters. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) The Red Rock Wilderness. By Elspeth Huxley. (Chatto and Windus, 15s.) BECAUSE to write a good historical......

The Lancaster Queen

WHATEVER Miss Nancy Mitford may urge in its favour, most people cannot possibly manage, however hard they try (and an inverted puritanism often makes us try to like all sorts of......