30 DECEMBER 1960, page 24

No More Very Bad Errors

DR. ELTON is a fortunate man. He has wrought in our understanding of early sixteenth-century English history a transformation comparable (at a distance) with that which Namier......

On Japan

Japan. By Ester Dening. (Benn, 27s.) THREE books on Japan. One is by a journalist who spent a year there with his wife and child simply 'absorbing an atmosphere as remote as we......

Master Pleader

Sir Patrick Hastings. By H. Montgomery 1 - 0 (Heinemann, 30s.) IN spite of the general boom in personality cO l° public interest in the characters of leading ad' catcs has......