25 OCTOBER 1957, page 23

As Others See Us

The British. By Drew Middleton. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) ONE of the nasty things about the British—in other respects an amiable enough crowd—is their neurotic delight in being......

Among The Amalekites

IF Professor Trevor-Roper did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. His clear-cut, bril- liantly argued, convincing and wrong hypotheses about seventeenth-century......