3 FEBRUARY 1961, page 24

Battle Piece

Now We Are Enemies. By Thomas Fleming. (Gollancz, 25s.) Ii is only partly true to say, as is often said, that the British like to glory in their defeats: it is more to the point......

Iconoclast As Icon

GIRLS put up their hair, but one sometimes feels that the most important day in Shaw's life was the day he decided to put up his eyebrows. Pre- served by Rodin, Epstein,......

Sottisier

The French Radical Party. By Francis De Tarr. (0.U.P., 35s.) READING this excellent, entertaining and depress- ing book, I came on the late M. Jammy-Schmidt. had long forgotten......