4 NOVEMBER 1932, page 25

Kings And Near-kings

Talleyrand. By Duff Cooper. (Cape. 12s. 6d. ) THE Abbey of Bee in Normandy provides one of the more pleasant of the ironies of history. Its first abbot was Lanfranc, its second......

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Tun biographer who sets out to prove a paradox, but has not the art to persuade the reader against his will may be rather irritating. The reader is reminded all the time that......