23 APRIL 1948, page 18

Books Of The Day

Influence from the South British Art and the Mediterranean. By F. Sail and R. Wittkower. (Oxford University Press. Three Guineas.) THE subject of this book is the relationship......

The Hungry Forties

OVER a century ago when the world, shaken by the French Revolu- tion and the wars that followed, seemed on the brink of great changes, Tocqueville's work on democracy in America......