5 OCTOBER 1956, page 31

Locust Years

Louis XV. By G. P Gooch. (Longmans, 25s.) DR. Gooch has spent a long life in the service of historica l scholarship, and few historians are more skilled than he in making the......

Heads In The Air

P iEcE, OF CAKE. By Geolf Taylor. (Peter Davies, 15s.) QUITE a long time ago now. Those children in cradles, that so m any of us in battledress worried about, are now on......