13 OCTOBER 1967, page 15

States Of Industry

C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Management and Machiavelli Antony Jay (Hodder and Stoughton 25s) A current illusion is that ancient and mediaeval history can be regarded as irrelevant to......

One To Dip Into

DAVID WILLIAMS Savonarola thought you shouldn't bathe in leap years. I am one who finds odd factual nuggets of this sort nice to know about, and so for a long time now I've been......