2 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 24

France Since 1814

France, 1814-1940. A History. By J. P. T. Bury. (Methuen. 18s.) THERE was room for a new text-book on the history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Mr.......

The Public Schools

THE passion for building all things new is dying and one can take satisfaction in it, for it would be odd indeed if this particular age, which has so many dubious......

Irish Impressions

The Face and Mind of Ireland. By Arland Ussher. (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) GLANCING backwards, Mr. Ussher confesses that the Ireland he knew in his boyhood was almost too good—or too......