18 JANUARY 1997, page 31

Getting Ideas Above His Station

Paul Barker NO DISCOURAGEMENT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by A. H. Halsey Macmillan Press, £40, £15.99, p.263 T his is the story of a railway child, who eventually got society to play......

The Italian Few

Montagu Curzon TAKE-OFF by Daniele del Giudice, translated by Joseph Farrell Harvill, £7.99, pp. 122 A direct descendant of the Saint-Exupery school of aeronautical/......