12 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 25

Travelling Light

Dragon Wang's River. By Sigurd Eliassen. (Methuen, 21s.) A Traveller in Rome. By H. V. Morton. (Methuen, 25s.) HERE we have four very different personalities Writing books of......

How Mad Was Nero?

Nero. By Gerard Walter. Translated by Emma Craufurd. (Allen and Unwin, 25s.) WHAT would a psychiatrist make of a man who could commit incest with his mother, then murder her,......