24 MAY 1968, page 18

Cardinal Sins

PETER VANSITTART Richelieu D. P. O'Connell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 63s) The seventeenth century, though of Mongol ferocity, was in essence a movement towards reason and order.......

A Don's Don

JEAN FRANCO Our Lord Don Quixote Miguel de Unamuno translated by Anthony Kerrigan (Routledge and Kegan Paul 56s) In his short story, 'Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote,'......

One-eyed War-lord

DAVID PRYCE-JONES Moshe Dayan : A Biography N. Lau-Lavie (Vallentine, Mitchell 30s) The war last June has led to a state of sus- pended animation in the Middle East; the Arab......