19 FEBRUARY 1977, page 22

Soiled Hands

Douglas Johnson Peasants into Frenchmen. The Modernisation of Rural French: 1870-1914, Eugen Weber (Chatto and Windus £12.00) In Britain we have never understood what a peasant......

Gay Dogs

Francis King The Cleveland Street Affair Levv,i5 Chester, David Leitch and 00" Simpson (Weidenfeld and Nicols on £5.95) So much has been published recently an e l)( the......