26 MAY 1928, Page 19

Miss Mend Buchanan has given us a very intimate account

of places and personages in her new book of reminiscences, Diplomacy and Foreign Courts (Hutchinson, 18s.). She has a great gift of memory and writes of pre-War Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, and Russia so freshly that it is difficult to remember that she is recalling days that are past. In a very able introduction Sir Bernard Pares describes Sir George Buchanan's chief characteristic as a " conquering simplicity." This trait has been inherited by his daughter, who; though she does take up the Cudgels for her father against an Unappreciative Governinent, does so with a dignity and restraint that is very telling. Her boOk will be a delight

to many.

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