3 APRIL 1953, page 26

Power And The State

Power. By Bertrand de Jouvenel. Translated by J. F. Huntington. (Batchworth Press. 25s.) POLITICAL theorists have often been justly criticised for their pre- occupation with.the......

Fiction

The Present and the Past. By L Compton-Burnett, (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) The Groves of Academe. By Mary McCarthy. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) THESE three novels are all in various ways......