3 JUNE 1960, page 22

I, Cincinnatus

Invitation to a Beheading. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 15s.) VLADIMIR NABOKOV wrote Invitation to a Be- heading in Russian in 1934, when living as an emigre......

Serov's Finest Hour

MY left-wing friends, I generally observe, see n much more ready to take a lenient view of th e , wholesale deportation by the Soviet governme n ` of seven small nationalities......