14 JANUARY 1949, page 24

New Look And Old Fashion

Tit whole philosophy of clothes, even the clothes of one country, is a subject of enormous complication ; and I think it may be doubted whether any one country provides adequate......

Middle East, Past And Present

A Short History of the Middle East. By George E. Kirk. (Methuen. 16s.) THE modern history of the Middle East is a terribly shapeless affair. Starting with Mohammed (it is......

Greco-roman Egypt

Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. A Study in the Diffusion and Decay of Hellenism. Being the Gregynog Lectures for 1946 by H. Idris Bell. (Oxford University......