5 JULY 1969, page 15

By Degrees

BRYAN WILSON Experiment at Berkeley Joseph Tussman (our 42s cloth. 15s paper) The big American university has some of the characteristics of a supermarket. Stu- dents shop......

Books Naples And Napoleon

CAROLA OMAN Sir William Hamilton was not really much of a fellow. His letters to his precious nephew Charles are sometimes quite as disagreeable in their worldly wisdom as those......

Soviet Progress

TIBOR SZAMUELY An Economic History of the USSR Alec Nove (Allen Lane The Penguin Press 55s) Is there such a thing as an 'economic his- tory of the USSR"? If it exists then......