17 NOVEMBER 1950, page 24

The Foreign Service

Both Sides of the Curtain. By Sir Maurice Peterson. (Constable. 2 is.) THE first two hundred and ninety-nine pages of this book run :along more or less normal lines. The......

Timeless Record Lytton Strachey Said Of Charles Greville...

once tasted the delicious fruit of the tree of political knowledge, he found he could eat nothing else. This might have been said of Mis: Arbuthnot, who deesibes Greville as "......

Larger Than Life

Alexandre Dumas: A Biography and Study. By A. Craig Bell, (Cassell. 3os.) THE phenomenal life of Alexandre Dumas requires a biographer of comparable appetite, industry and......