12 NOVEMBER 1954, page 23

Execrable Sovereign

rEw rulers can have been so generally loathed as Nicholas I, Tsar nj Russia. Swelling with righteous indignation at the rape of ,rOland, Lord Tennyson trenchantly described him......

Travellers' Lives

Leda and the Goose, By Tristram Hillier. (Longthans. 16s.) South from Naples. By Roger Peyrefitte. (Thames & Hudson. 21s.) MR. HILLIER is lucky as an autobiographer. He lived in......