29 DECEMBER 1973, page 16

Political Science

Kenneth Minogue The Limits of Human Nature edited by Jonathan Benthall (Allen Lane, DI.) One of the indestructible projects of the modern world is that of bringing together......

Shorter Notice

Gilbert and Sullivan and Their World Leslie Baily (Thames and Hudson. £2.25.) Very much in the way of a postscript to the author's giant book on the subject back in 1952, this......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge a dazzling achievement in this gloom-ridden Christmas week. The honours, with hearty seasonal congratulations, go appropriately......

Talking Of Books

Here, Pluto! Benny Green It is a revealing comment on the mess into which the human race has worked itself that whereas the definitive fictional archetype of the nineteenth......