4 OCTOBER 1969, page 18

Trial And Error

Maurice CAPITANCHIK Joyce Cary: A Biography Malcolm Foster (Michael Joseph 70s) Two of the photographs in this biography show Joyce Cary as a fierce young officer of the......

Mahatma's Magic

GEOFFREY ASHE The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi Robert Payne (Bodley Head 84s) The Trial of Mr Gandhi Francis Watson (Macmillan 63s) This week marks the hundredth anniversary......

Shorter Notice

The Siege of Leningrad Harrison E. Salis- bury (Seeker and Warburg 84s). The writing is on occasion melodramatic and some of the anecdotes are impossibly silly, but this will......