27 OCTOBER 1967, page 15

Festschrift

J. H. PLUMB In the last ten years, the Festschrift has be- come an established English institution— sooner or later, it would seem, every historian of distinction is acclaimed......

Paths To Glory

NIGEL NICOLSON 'Consanguinity,' wrote a reviewer of Winston's life of his father, 'is by no means a recommen- dation for the post of biographer.' On the contrary, it is rather a......