28 FEBRUARY 1970, page 20

Arts The Third And Its Throes

HENRY TUBE The marked resemblance of recent pro- nouncements from the BBC to the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett is not fortuitous. We are apt to assume that the world about which......

Crowe's Nest

Elizabeth WISKEMANN The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1898- 1914 Zara Steiner (cup 65s) Mrs Steiner has written a most illuminating account of the Foreign Office in the last......

Shorter Notice

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Non-Violence Erik H. Erikson (Faber 50s). Alarming as the enterprise may sound, 'a psychoanalyst's search for the historical pre-......