Two French 'novelists

The Living and the Lost. By Michel Zeraffa. (Bodley Head. I5s.) Count d'Orgel Opens the Ball was first published in the French original in 1924, a year after the death of......

A Public Servant

The Forrestal Diaries: The Inner History of the Cold War. Edited by Walter Millis with the collaboration of E. S. Duffield. (Cassell. 25s.) JAMES FORRESTAL went to Washington in......

Birds For Beginners

The Pocket Guide to British Birds. By R. S. R. Fitter and R. A. Richardson. (Collins. 21s.) THE number of pocket-size reference-books on British birds is a testimony to the......

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