26 MAY 1967, page 18

Pretty Betty

HILARY SPURLING On 1 December 1804 Master Betty's debut in a forgotten tragedy at Covent Garden eclipsed Napoleon's coronation next day, and most of Napoleon's doings for the......

The Labyrin Th Of Solitude Octavio Paz .trans-

Myths in action PETER VANSITTART lated by Lysander Kemp (Alan Lane The Penguin Press 30s) Theories of national identity tend to foam over into fake science, wishful thinking,......

The Campaigns Of Napoleon David Chandler (weidenfeld And...

gns) The artilleryman CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT The Campaigns of Napoleon David Chandler (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 6 gns) One day at St Helena, while fashioning his legend for the......

Attentat !

ARNOLD BEICHMAN The Ghana Coup Colonel A. A. Afrifa preface by K. A. Busia introduction by Tibor Szamuely (Cass 25s) Colonel Afrifa, a thirty-year-old Sandhurst- trained......