12 FEBRUARY 1960, page 25

A New Thucydides

The Greek Historians. Selected and Edited by M. I. Finley. (Chatto, 30s.) MOST people probably still leave school with the notion that Herodotus was an amusing but frivolous......

Operation Bonaparte

N apoleon Immortal. By James Kemble. (Murray, 28s.) GotA tiE once said that he found the experience clf thinking about Napoleon's career similar to t hat of reading the......

Being Simple

Poetry of This Age: 1908 to 1958. By J. M. Cohen. (Hutchinson, 25s.; Grey Arrow Books, 5s.) WE already owe a debt to Mr. Cohen for, among other translations, his Penguin version......