28 JANUARY 1949, page 26

The First Map-makers

CLASSICAL antiquity offers no more exciting field of study than its geography, the theory and practice of which are Professor Thomson's subject. It seems slightly absurd in the......

Lister, The Man

Joseph Lister. By Hector Charles Cameron. (Heinemann. 17s. 6d.) A coon many years ago one of Lister's nieces—herself already then an old lady—told the present' writer that......

Irish Politician

Kevin O'Higgins. By Terence de Vere White. (Methuen. 18s.) FOR many of the younger generation of Irishmen the memory of Kevin O'Higgins is either one of awe at the horror of his......