24 DECEMBER 1965, page 21

The Time-tripper's Vade-mecum

IDEALLY, books about the past should extend in depth the fascination of books about abroad. Ideally, they should also help to explain, even when they purport to offer a mere......

Incredible Certainties

The Hound and the Falcon. By Antonia White. (Longmans, 30s.) ANTONIA WHITE'S new book is subtitled 'A Story . of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith.' But it is far more. It is......

Ships And Empires

THE appearance of the second volume of A. J. Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow (O.U.P., 60s.) is an event of the greatest impor- tance for all students of naval......