3 OCTOBER 1970, page 20

Mixed Marx

Maurice CAPITANCHIK Tussy is Me Michael Hastings (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 40s) On many a library shelf, a brash book on G. Marx (Groucho the clown) peeps out from amongst the......

• March Of History

DAVID WILLIAMS Holborn: An Historical Portrait of a London Borough John Lehmann (Macmillan 65s) It now costs a shilling to ride from Green Park to Piccadilly Circus. So this is......

Chinese Firecrackers

PAT BARR The Dragon Wakes Christopher Hibbert (Longman 65s) That China today—well over a hundred years after its reluctant 'Opening' to the West—is still the enigmatic chameleon......