9 FEBRUARY 1974, page 23

Stooge Or Saviour?

Patrick Wall Banda Philip Short (Routledge and Kegani Paul £3.50) `Kwacha,"Uhuru,"Freedom' are words that have dominated the African continent in the second half of the......

Talking Of Books

Once upon a time Benny Green Before Anthony Curtis's The Pattern of Maugham (Hamish Hamilton £3.50) loses the bloom of novelty and subsides on to the Eng. Lit. bookshelves, I......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The death of so accomplished a biographer as James Pope-Hennessy would have been a sad loss to authorship at any time. A former literary editor of The Spectator, he......