5 DECEMBER 1970, page 27

Spokesman For The In-betweens

AUBERON WAUGH Play t Man an Peter Forster (Eyre and Spot- tiswoode 35s) • There is a whole generation tucked away between those writers like Hugo Charteris, Patrick Leigh-Fermor......

Central Figure

NORMAN GASH Palmerston Jasper Ridley (Constable 63s) -or Mr Ridley's new biography of Palmerston has two great merits. It is the first to make systematic use of the Broadlands......