3 JANUARY 1964, page 21

The Fix

BERNARD SHAW'S cynical assertion, in the Maxims for Revolutionists, that 'democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appoint- ment by the corrupt few' was......

Labyrinth

On the Knossos Tablets. The Find-Places of the Knossos Tablets. By L. R. Palmer. The Date of the Knossos Tablets. By John Boardman. (O.U.P., 84s.) THESE salvoes are the heaviest......