6 JANUARY 1973, page 15

History From Coinage

Simon Hornblower Cleopatra Michael Grant (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.25) Biography is the easy approach to history, according to Syme, in his Tacitus. Easy for the reader,......

Union Sicknesses

Claude Doughty It is striking that Maureen Tomison has chosen as her title for a new study of British Trade Unions and their political influence The English Sickness (Tom Stacey......

Bookend

Bookbuyer In temper with the cold and miserable weather, Bookbuyer proposes some distinctly Scrooge-like resolutions. He resolves: — that he will comport himself more......