3 OCTOBER 1958, page 40

Common People

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting. By Penelope Mortimer. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) Clotilde. By Cecil Saint Laurent. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 18s.) Parton's Island. By Paul Darcy Boles.......

Quemoy-on-the-spree?

The Berlin Blockade: A Study in Cold War Politics. By W. Phillips Davison. (O.U.P., 60s.) IN a way it is a little unfortunate that Professor Davison's book on the first great......

Lord Detector

Star Chamber Stories. By G. R. Elton. (Methuen, 21s.) DR. ELTON'S stories are based on the Star Chamber records of the 1530s. They are, he disarmingly tells us, the by-products......