4 DECEMBER 1959, page 26

Leftover Colonies

MR. STRACHEY believes that empires are no longer necessary, and that with a little luck we have seen the last of them. A Socialist but, by now, a care- fully undogmatic......

Time For Skill

Approach to Archaeology. By Stuart Piggott. (A. and C. Black, 15s.) A CENTURY ago history began, for all practical purposes, with the first Olympiad in 776 BC. Archaeology......