29 MAY 1953, page 24

Two Etonians

Call Back Yesterday: Memoirs, 1887-1931. By Hugh Dalton. (Muller. 21s.) Born to Believe: An Autobiography. By Lord Pakenham. (Cape. 18s.) HUGH DALTON went to Eton in 1901 and......

Ulster's Fighting Advqcate

Orson. By H. Montgomery Hyde. (Heinemann. 25s.) PHILIP GUEDALLA once wrote that "silence is posterity's one repartee to Anglo-Indian reminiscences," and today this remark can be......

A Writer's Upbringing

IN The Weeping and the Laughter,- the first volume of a trilogy, Mr. Maclaren-Ross describes his childhood up to the age often. "Those readers," his publishers tell us, " who......