24 OCTOBER 1970, page 25

Four Lives

MICHAEL WHARTON A.P.H.: His Life and Times Sir Alan Herbert (Heinemann 63s) My Commonplace Book Mary Stocks (Peter Davies 55s) Whatever Happened to Tom Mix Ted Willis (Cassell......

Great Fred For The Coffee Table

T. C. W. BLANNING Frederick the Great Nancy Mitford (Hamish Hamilton 80s) It would be difficult to write a dull book about Frederick the Great. He lived for seventy-four years......

Bourgeois Decadence

JOHN BRAINE Bech: A Book John Updike (Andre Deutsch 30s) I can remember the time, discovering Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Farrell, O'Hara, when the chief feature of......