6 MARCH 1953, page 22

Affable Hawk

Memories. By Desmond MacCarthy. Forewords by Raymond Mortimer and Cyril Connolly. (MacGibbon and Kee. 16s.) " Hs had a rather beak-like nose and the look of an alert but seden-......

Inexhaustible Subject

Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man. By Virginia Cowles. (Hamish Hamilton. 18s.) No man while still alive, and not many men after death, have had as many biographers as Mr.......

In Next Week's "spectator" Michael Sadleir Will Review...

by Julian Franklyn; Professor Bonamy Dobree "Literature for an Age of Science" by Hyman Levy and Helen Spalding; and L. P. Kirwan "Blind White Fish in Persia" by Anthony Smith.......