31 MAY 1957, page 30

The Great Nation

PROFESSOR BROGAN evidently set out to write a sketch of French life from the Restoration to Vichy, and he has come very near providing that much-needed book, a social history of......

The Freedom Of Genius

Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic. By Alan Wood. (Allen and Unwin, 2 IS.) THERE are obvious objections to writing a man's biography while he is still alive. Certain......