10 NOVEMBER 1973, page 20

More And Still More

Blair Worden The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation. S. H. Hexter and (Allen Lane E3.50) Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas More's Utopia and Claude de......

The Slippery Pole

Nick Emley From Dartmoor to Cambridge: The Autobiography of a Prison Graduate Douglas , Curtis (Hodder and Stoughton £2,40) This book is almost a virtuoso performance, the......

Signature In Sand

Jan Morris Philby of Arabia Elizabeth Monroe (Faber £4.50) The son of a colonial philanderer, the father of a communist spy, H. St John Philby spent his life restlessly betwixt......