16 MAY 1958, page 24

Second Heaviest

Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party. By H. S. Merrill; edited by Oscar Handlin. (A. and C. Black, 18s.) GROVER CLEVELAND was the second heaviest President......

Right Trueidiom

A Dictionary of Abstract Painting. By Michel Seuphor. (Methuen, 42s.) ' Brancusi. By David Lewis. (Tiranti, 18s.) DESPITE the detractors and resisters, there's little doubt that......

Ghostly Eminence

The Political System of Napoleon III. BY Theodore Zeldin. (Macmillan, 24s.) peculiar drawbacks, and the same restless Ye le a personal centralised autocracy; only to be - r e '......