6 MAY 1949, page 26

Marc Bloch

Strange Defeat : A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. By Marc Bloch. With an Introduction by Sir Maurice Powicke and Fore- word by Georges Altman. Translated from the French......

Author Of " The Beaux' Stratagem

THE Restoration 'comedy of manners has been in complete dis- grace for long, and it is only within recent years that-its impudent themes have been studied critically and without......