10 FEBRUARY 1979, page 20

The Man And The Theory

Richard Cobb Gracchus Babeuf: The First Revolutionary Communist R.B. Rose (Arnold £12.95) Was Babeuf a Communist? What sort of a Communist was he: a backward - looking one......

Celebrity

Taki Theodoracopulos Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Stephen Birmingham (Gollancz £5.50) Stephen Birmingham is the American version of Willi Frischauer. Like the late Willi,......