11 DECEMBER 1953, page 26

Colonial Documents

British Colonial Developments, 1774-1834. By Vincent Harlow and Frederick Madden. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 35s.) IT is now twenty-five years since the late Mr. K. N. Bell and......

My Mother's House

My Mother's House and Sido. By Colette. Translated by Enid McLeod and Una Troubridge. (Seeker and Warburg. 12s. 6d.) IT must be highly satisfactory to a writer to be awarded a......

Family Histories

The Brudenells of Deene. By Joan Wake. (Cassell. 21s.) THE great country houses are suffering the fate which overtook the monasteries more than four centuries ago ; and their......