12 JULY 1957, page 35

The German 'prince'

Machiavellism: The Doctrine of Raison d'Etat and its Place in Modern History. By Fried- rich Meinecke. Translated by Douglas Scott. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 50s.) TEN years......

The M.c.c. Tour Of South Africa 1956-57. By Charles Fortune.

(Harrap, 15s.) Many cricket writers do not yet seem to have realised that an aggregation of accurate and sensible day-to-day reports will not make a s atisfactory cricket book,......