3 OCTOBER 1952, page 28

Interim In The Empire

HISTORIANS tend to chop up their subject into convenient lengths which they can arrange in conventional patterns. The story of the first British Empire, and its conclusion in......

Three Diversions

One-Upmanship. By Stephen Potter. (Hart-Davis. 8s. 6d.) Shakespeare and Myself. By George Mikes. (Wingate. 8s. 6d.) THERE are two great levellers: death and ridicule. For no man......